Definition of: Davis

(dā′vis), Jefferson,
1808–89, U.S. statesman; president of the Confederacy 1862–1865.
—John,
1550?–1605, English navigator.
—Norman Hezekiah,
1878–1944, U.S. financier and diplomat.
—Owen,
1874–1956, U.S. dramatist.
—Richard Harding,
1864–1916, U.S. journalist and novelist.
—Stuart,
born 1894, U.S. painter.
—William Stearns,
1877–1930, U.S. educator and historian.