Davisson, Clarendon

Born: 1817 Ohio

Died: 1878-09-12 Georgia

Flourished: 1858-08-10 Chicago, Illinois

Clarendon Davisson, a journalist, graduated from Indiana University in 1844 with a Bachelors of Law, although he never practiced. He started his publishing career with a newspaper in Bloomington, Indiana. He also worked as the commercial editor of the Chicago Press and Tribune and the Missouri Democrat. Other newspapers for which he worked include the Indianapolis Journal, the St. Louis Democrat, and the San Francisco Call.

In 1858, the Chicago Press and Tribune assigned Davisson to cover Abraham Lincoln throughout the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in his campaign for the U.S. Senate. In 1861, President Lincoln appointed Davisson as Consul at Bordeaux, France, a position he held until 1866.

Davisson married Mary Ann Mcintire in July 1845 in Indiana. The couple had at least one daughter, Francis M. Davisson. He died of apoplexy on Broughton Island, Georgia.

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