Dwight Davis

Full name: Dwight Filley Davis

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Bio	Dwight Filley Davis was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1923 to 1925. Davis reached the All-Comers final for the Men's Singles title at the US Championships in 1898 and 1899. He then teamed up with Holcombe Ward and won the Men's Doubles title at the championships for three years in a row from 1899 to 1901. Davis and Ward were also Men's Doubles runners-up at Wimbledon in 1901. Davis also won the American intercollegiate singles championship of 1899 as a student at Harvard College. In 1900, as a recent Harvard graduate, Davis donated and placed the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy into competition. He sensed a chance to promote goodwill for tennis internationally through his deeds, and soon his concept became known as “The Davis Cup.” It has been cherished as the worldwide symbol of team competition in tennis ever since. The left-handed Davis appropriately contributed to the Americans winning the first Davis Cup in 1900. As a member of the US team that won the first two competitions in 1900 and 1902, and was also the captain of the 1900 team. He was ranked second in the United States twice and took the National Intercollegiate Championships in 1899. He participated in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the second round of the singles tournament. In the doubles tournament he and his partner Ralph McKittrick lost in the quarter-finals. Davis was educated at Washington University Law School, though he was never a practicing attorney. He was, however, politically active in his home town of St. Louis and served as the city's public parks commissioner from 1911 to 1915. During his tenure, he expanded athletic facilities and created the first municipal tennis courts in the United States. He served President Calvin Coolidge as Assistant Secretary of War (1923–25) and as Secretary of War (1925–29). He then served as Governor General of the Philippines (1929–32) under Herbert Hoover. His first wife, Helen Brooks, whom he married in 1905, died in 1932. He married Pauline Sabin in 1936. He wintered in Florida from 1933 until his death, living at Meridian Plantation, near Tallahassee. Davis died in Washington, D.C. on November 28, 1945. Davis was a Republican party politician also he has been honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Dwight F. Davis was inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1956.
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