Davis, Artur

LC control no.	no2009091225
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Davis, Artur *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1967-10-09
Place of birth	Montgomery (Ala.)
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House Harvard University Harvard Law School
Profession or occupation	Legislators Civil rights workers Lawyers
Found in	The last lynching, c2008: credits (Artur Davis) Congressional directory, via WWW, June 12, 2009 (Artur Davis; b. Oct. 9, 1967; Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives for the Seventh District of Alabama) African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Davis, Artur; Davis, Artur Genestre; U.S. Representative, lawyer, community activist, civil rights activist; born 09 October 1967 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States; graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in government from Harvard (1990) and then began graduate studies at Harvard University Law School; during his tenure at Harvard he made the acquaintance of Barack Obama, the future president of the United States; as a student, he served as intern to Alabama Democratic U.S. Senator, Howell Heflin, and earned the Best Oralist Award in the Ames Moot Court Competition at Harvard Law; he graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School (1993); in January 2003 assumend office as the representative for Alabama's 7th Congressional District; in 2007 he became the first congressman outside of Illinois to publicly support Senator Obama's candidacy for president; his seconding speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, formally placed Barack Obama's name for nomination; in November 2009 he voted against the H.R. 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act passed in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, making him the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to oppose the bill)