Joseph J. Davenport
Joseph J. Davenport | |
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27th Mayor of Kansas City | |
In office 1889 - 1890 | |
Preceded by | Henry C. Kumpf |
Succeeded by | Benjamin Holmes |
Personal details | |
Born | 1849 (1849) St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Died | 1921(1921-00-00) (aged 71–72) |
Political party | Republican |
Joseph Jackson Davenport (1849 – 1921) was a lawyer, realtor and Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1889. He moved to Kansas City from his native Saint Louis in about 1873, joining "the pork-packing business with J. E. McKenzie," and after his term as mayor entering real estate. Following his term a new city charter was implemented and terms were extended to two years.
Davenport had a legendary encounter with Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson in which Davenport was alleged to have gone to the publisher's office (with or without a gun according to various tellings) to settle a squabble "man to man." Managing Editor T.W. Johnston, City Editor Ralph Stout, Editorial Writer William Allen White and a telegrapher named Phillips came to Nelson's aid, threw Davenport down a flight of stairs with Davenport saying "Drop the cuspidor, Ralph Stout! Put that spittoon down!" Nelson was reported to have said. "The Star never loses!"[1]
Davenport was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Kansas City around 1873, where he engaged "the pork-packing business with J. E. McKenzie."[2]
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Preceded by Henry C. Kumpf | Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri 1889–1890 | Succeeded by Benjamin Holmes |
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