James Davis, Jim Davis, Jimmy Davis, or Jamie Davis may refer to:

People[link]

In sport[link]

• Jim Davis (baseball) (1924–1995), baseball pitcher
• Jim Davis (basketball) (born 1941), American basketballer
• James Davis (cornerback) (born 1957), NFL cornerback and safety
• James Davis (athlete) (born 1976), American sprinter
• James Davis (linebacker) (born 1979), NFL linebacker
• Jim Davis (gridiron football) (born 1981), American football player
• Jimmy Davis (footballer) (1982–2003), Manchester United footballer
• James Davis (running back) (born 1986), American football halfback
• Jumbo Davis (1861–1921), James J. "Jumbo" Davis, American baseball player

In politics[link]

• James Davis (Australian politician) (c. 1811–1859), politician in Electoral district of Alberton, Victoria, Australia
• James H. Davis (congressman) (1853–1940), United States Representative from Texas
• James J. Davis (1873–1947), United States Senator and Secretary of Labor
• James C. Davis (1895–1981), United States Representative from Georgia
• Jimmie Davis (1899–2000), musician and Governor of Louisiana
• Jim Davis (Florida politician) (born 1957), United States Representative from Florida
• Jim Davis (North Carolina politician) (born 1947), North Carolina State Senator
• James E. Davis (councilman) (1962–2003), assassinated New York City politician
• Jim Davis (mayor), mayor of Antioch, California
• Jim Davis (Ohio politician), former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives
• James B. Davis (politician), member of the Texas Senate, District 14 from 1863 to 1864

Other[link]

• James B. Davis (musician) (1917–2007), American musician
• James Davis (satirist) (c. 1706–1755), Welsh doctor and satirist
• James Davis (escaped convict) (1808–1889), aka "Duramboi", escaped convict who lived with Aborigines
• James Davis (VC) (1835–1893), Scottish Victoria Cross recipient
• James J. Davis (Catholic bishop) (1852–1926), Roman Catholic bishop
• James E. Davis (police) (1889–1949), Los Angeles Chief of Police
• James Peter Davis (1904–1988), American Roman Catholic Archbishop
• Jim Davis (actor) (1909–1981), American actor
• James A. Davis (born 1929), sociologist
• James B. Davis (general) (born 1935), U.S. Air Force general
• Jim Davis (cartoonist) (born 1945), creator of the Garfield comic strip
• Jamie Davis (born 1981), English actor
• James Levert Davis, African Methodist Episcopal bishop
• James Davis (musician), British music producer and DJ
• James M. Davis (born about 1948), former chief financial officer of Stanford Financial Group
• Jim Davis (business), Chairman of New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. and founder of Major League Lacrosse
• Jim Limber Davis, mulatto boy who was briefly a ward of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America
• James Davis (mariner) (1575–c. 1620), English ship captain and author
• James Davis (critic) (1853- 1907), pen-name Owen Hall, Irish-born theatre writer and theatre critic
• Jimmy Davis (songwriter), co-writer of the song "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"
• James T. Davis (d. December 22, 1961), first American who died in a battlefield engagement in the Vietnam War

Other[link]

• USS James L. Davis (1861) (1861), sailing bark acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War

See also[link]

• James Davies (disambiguation)

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Max Davis is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.^[1]

Davis made a solitary official international appearance for New Zealand as a substitute in a 3-3 draw with Australia on 16 March 1973.^[2]

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Jim Cooper
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2003
Preceded by	Bob Clement
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 4th district
In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995
Preceded by	Al Gore
Succeeded by	Van Hilleary
Personal details
Born	(1954-07-19) July 19, 1954 (age 57) Nashville, Tennessee
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Martha Hayes
Children	Mary, Jamie, Hayes
Residence	Shelbyville, Tennessee (1983-c. 1995) Nashville, Tennessee (c. 1995-present)
Alma mater	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Oxford University Harvard Law School
Occupation	Attorney
Religion	Episcopalian

Cooper with his wife Martha

James Hayes Shofner "Jim" Cooper (born July 19, 1954) is the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district (based in Nashville), serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Blue Dog Coalition. He previously represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1983 to 1995.

Early life, education, and law career[link]

Cooper was born in Nashville and raised in Shelbyville, Tennessee.^[1] He is the son of former governor Prentice Cooper and his wife Hortense.^[2] He is an Eagle Scout. Jim Cooper attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Chapter of the Chi Psi fraternity, a recipient of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship, and earned a B.A. in history and economics. Cooper won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, where he earned a B.A./M.A. in politics and economics in 1977. In 1980, he received a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

After getting his law degree, he spent two years working for the law firm Waller, Lansden, Dortch and Davis in Nashville, then ran for Congress in 1982.^[3]

U.S. House of Representatives (1982-1995)[link]

Elections[link]

Earlier photo of Cooper

In 1982, Cooper won the Democratic primary for the 4th District, which had been created when Tennessee gained a district after the 1980 census. The new 4th ran diagonally across the state, from heavily Republican areas near Tri-Cities, Knoxville and Chattanooga to the fringes of the Nashville suburbs. The district stretched across five media markets - the Tri-Cities (Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol), Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville and Huntsville, Alabama - so the 1982 race had much of the feel of a statewide race. Owing to the district's demographics, many felt that whoever won the election would almost instantly become a statewide figure with a high potential for election to statewide office in the future. Cooper defeated Cissy Baker, an editor in Washington for the Cable News Network and the daughter of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker^[4] with 66 percent of the vote. He was reelected five more times with little substantive opposition, running unopposed in 1986 and 1988. This was somewhat surprising, given the district's volatile demographics. The district, then as now, was split between areas with strong Democratic and Republican voting histories. Indeed, prior to Cooper's election, much of the eastern portion of the 4th hadn't been represented by a Democrat since the Civil War. However, the size of the district makes it extremely difficult to unseat an incumbent.

Tenure[link]

Cooper has always been a staunch supporter of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the movement to loosen federal gun laws, and during his 1984 election campaign, the NRA donated a sum to his campaign that approached the legal limit of $10,000.^[5]

In 1992 Cooper was co-author of a bipartisan health-care reform plan, that did not include employer mandates compelling universal coverage. This initiative met with strong opposition from Hillary Clinton.^[6]

In 1990, Cooper was one of only three House Democrats who voted against the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.^[7] On several occasions, however, he found himself having to explain his votes to his somewhat conservative constituents.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009 the Wall Street Journal wrote about Cooper's concerns about the national deficit. “It's even worse than most people think, he says, because of dodgy accounting used by the federal government...'The U.S. government uses cash accounting,' he says. 'That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government.'”^[8] He made similar remarks on PBS, saying that 'The real deficit in America is at least twice as large as any politician will tell you. And it may be ten times larger.'”^[9]

Committee assignments[link]

During his first period in Congress, he served on the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce^[10][11][12]

1994 U.S. Senate election[link]

In 1994, Cooper ran for the Senate seat vacated by Al Gore's election to the Vice Presidency, but was soundly defeated by Republican attorney and actor Fred Thompson. Cooper received just under 40 percent of the vote. It was a bad year overall for Democrats in Tennessee, as Republican Bill Frist captured Tennessee's other Senate seat and Don Sundquist was elected governor. The 4th district seat was also won by a Republican, Van Hilleary, as the GOP gained a majority of the state's congressional delegation for only the second time since Reconstruction.

Inter-congressional years (1995-2002)[link]

After losing his Senate bid, Cooper moved to Nashville and went into private business, also serving as a professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.

U.S. House of Representatives (2002-Present)[link]

Elections[link]

2002

When Thompson opted not to run for a second full Senate term in 2002, 5th District U.S. Congressman Bob Clement ran for Thompson's seat, resulting in the first open-seat race in the 5th District since a 1987 special election. Cooper entered the Democratic primary along with several other prominent local Democrats. Having not won the district since 1874, Republicans had long since given up on it; the last serious GOP bid for the 5th had been in 1972. It was generally understood that whoever won the Democratic primary was all but assured of victory in November. Cooper won the primary with 44 percent of the vote, all but assuring his return to Congress after an eight-year absence. Cooper defeated opponent Craig Schelske in the general election by an overwhelming margin.

2004

Cooper was re-elected in 2004 against a Republican who disavowed his party's national ticket.

2006

In the 2006 election, Cooper faced Tom Kovach, the state public relations coordinator for the Constitution Party, who ran as a Republican since the Constitution Party did not have ballot access in Tennessee at the time. No one opposed Kovach for the Republican nomination. Cooper defeated Kovach by 41 points.

2008

On Election Day 2008, Cooper easily won re-election with 66 percent of the vote, defeating Republican John Gerard Donovan and Independent Jon "Trailerpark" Jackson, who garnered 31 percent and 2 percent respectively.^[13]

2010

Cooper defeated Republican David Hall on November 2, 2010, with 57 percent of the vote to Hall's 42 percent.^[14]

Tenure[link]

Cooper is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition and generally has a moderate voting record. Cooper is the only Tennessean on the Armed Services Committee. He also serves on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Despite the different policy affiliation, he became one of Barack Obama's earliest Congressional endorsers.^[15] Cooper opposed an $819 billion economic stimulus plan that passed the House in 2009,^[16] but ended up voting for the revised $787 billion final package.^[17] He is one of only a few Blue Dog members that don't seek earmarks.^[18][19] Cooper voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010.^[20]

In July 2011, Cooper was one of five Democrats to vote for the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act.^[21]

In 2011, Rep. Cooper became a co-sponsor of Bill H.R.3261 otherwise known as the Stop Online Piracy Act. ^[22]

Criticism of Congress

Cooper spoke with Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig about the subject of reforming Congress.^[23] According to Lessig, Cooper explained that members of Congress were were so preoccupied with the question of what they would do after leaving Congress – the most obvious career path being lobbying – that they fell into the habit of thinking about how to serve special interests rather than how to serve the public.^[23] According to Lessig, Cooper described Congress as a "Farm League for K Street".^[24][23]

In 2011, Cooper said: “Working in this Congress is deeply frustrating; in fact, it's enraging. My colleagues are misbehaving. They're posturing for voters back home. They're taking the cheap political hit instead of studying the problem that's before us.”^[25] In the same year, Cooper “called the partisan posturing over the debt ceiling 'an extremely dangerous game of chicken,' and said he’d 'never seen politicians act more irresponsibly than they have been recently,' over the nation’s debt.”^[26]

Committee assignments[link]

• Committee on Armed Services
  • Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
  • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Ranking Member)
• Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
  • Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management
  • Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending
  • Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs

Caucus memberships

• Congressional Arts Caucus

Personal life[link]

In 1985 Cooper married Martha Bryan Hays.^[27] They have three children.^[28] Cooper's daughter Mary is the sitting Student Body President at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ^[29] Cooper's son Hayes attends Groton School.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jim Cooper

• U.S. Representative Jim Cooper official House site
• Jim Cooper for Congress official campaign site
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
• Congressional profile at OpenCongress
• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
• Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Liberadio(!) audio Interview
• "Jim Cooper Gets the Treatment: A Blue Dog Barks Back" Interview with Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic, April 2, 2009
• The Last Moderate, Joe Nocera, The New York Times, September 5, 2011

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James "Jim" Dear (1910–1981) was an English racquets, court tennis, and squash player who effectively won world titles in three different sports during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Dear was the racquets world champion from 1947 to 1954, losing the title to Geoffrey Atkins.

He was also world champion of court, or real, tennis from 1955 to 1957.

Dear also won the most prestigious title in squash, the British Open, in 1939, at a time when there was no official world championship and the British Open champion was acknowledged as the world's best. Dear was also the runner-up at the competition three times in the 1930s and twice in the late-1940s.

He was among seven British world champions honored at the inaugural Sports Writers' Association - which later became the Sports Journalists' Association - annual sports dinner in 1949.

See also[link]

• Real tennis world champions
• British Open Squash Championships

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James Shaw ca. 1888-9

Mayors of Adelaide:
Judah Moss Solomon (1869-71);
James Shaw (1888-9);
Frederick William Bullock (1891-2)
ca. 1880

James Shaw (1846–1910) was Mayor of Adelaide from 1888 to 1889.

James Shaw arrived in South Australia in 1864. Builder and contractor; Councillor for the Young Ward.^[1]

References[link]

• http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/search~S1?/dShaw%2C+James%2C+1846-1910/dshaw+james+1846+1910/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=dshaw+james+1846+1910&1%2C21%2C
• http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2272210~S1, Obituary, Chronicle, 24 September 1910, p. 47, col. d

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