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, mayor of Kansas City in 1889, also a lawyer and realtor, moving 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. |
, mayor of Kansas City in 1889, also a lawyer and realtor, moving 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. |
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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." <ref>[http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=109527 Local History - Kansas City Public Library<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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." <ref>[http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=109527 Local History - Kansas City Public Library<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010100127/http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=109527 |date=2007-10-10 }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:22, 27 April 2017
Joseph Jackson Davenport (1849–1921) was a lawyer, realtor and Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1889.
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, thrown Davenport down a flight of stairs with Davenport saying:
Nelson was reported to have said:
- The Star never loses![1]
, mayor of Kansas City in 1889, also a lawyer and realtor, moving 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.
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]
References
- ^ Tom's Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend By William M. Reddig - ISBN 0-8262-0498-8 - pp42 and 43 (available on print.google.com)
- ^ Local History - Kansas City Public Library Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine