The New Student's Reference Work/Davis, John Chandler Bancroft

Davis, John Chandler Bancroft, American jurist and diplomat, was born at Worcester, Mass., Dec. 29, 1822.  After graduating at Harvard, he studied law and began to practice in New York.  Early in his career he was secretary of the United States legation at London, and acted as American correspondent of the London Times.  In 1869 he became a member of the New York legislature.  In the same year he was appointed assistant-secretary of state, and acted as agent of the government at the Geneva court of arbitration in the settlement of the Alabama claims.  From 1874 to 1877 he was United States minister to Germany, and from 1878 to 1882 was judge in the United States court of claims.  Latterly he has held the post of reporter for the United States supreme court.  He has published The Massachusetts Justice, Treaties of the United States and numerous volumes of reports.