Joseph J. Davenport
Male, Deceased Person
1849 – 1921
Who was Joseph J. Davenport?
Joseph Jackson Davenport 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 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:
Drop the cuspidor, Ralph Stout! Put that spittoon down!
Nelson was reported to have said:
The Star never loses!
, 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."
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- Born
- 1849
- Also known as
- Joseph Davenport
- Lived in
- St. Louis
- Died
- 1921
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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