Lincoln Davis (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Tennessee (4)
- Birth Date: Sept. 13, 1943
- Occupation: Farmer
- Religion: Baptist
- Web site: http://www.lincolndavis.com
Education
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Tennessee Technological University, BS
Lincoln Davis was born and resides in Pall Mall, Tenn. Once the mayor of Byrdstown, he earned a degree from Tennessee Tech in agronomy and became a beef cattle and tobacco farmer. He worked as a soil scientist with Soil Conservation Services and a Farmers Home Administration loan officer in 1968.
He served a term as state representative, 1980-84, and in 1996 was elected to the state Senate, where he served until elected to Congress in 2002.
Davis and his wife, Lynda, have three daughters.
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