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Forest Davis

American politician (1879-1958)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ56070610 ↗
Source-derived summary

Forest Davis (March 28, 1879 – January 27, 1958) was an American politician from the state of Iowa.

Davis was born in Wayne County, Iowa, in 1879. He served as a Democrat for one term in the Iowa House of Representatives from January 9, 1933, to January 13, 1935. Davis died in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa in 1958. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery, Moulton, Iowa.

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“Forest Davis” enters the record as american politician (1879-1958). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Forest, Davis and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1958, 1933, 1935—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1879-03-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Forest, Davis and American.
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“Forest Davis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Forest, Davis and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56070610. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1958, 1933 and 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from “Forest Davis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.