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921	Name:	George Davidson
	Year Elected:	1866
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1825
	Death Date:	12/1/11

922	Name:	Dr. Donald Davidson
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	1985
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	407. Philosophy
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1917
	Death Date:	August 31, 2003

923	Name:	Benjamin Davis
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

	Benjamin Davis (fl. 1766) was a merchant and a member of the Young Junto, elected in 1766, the same year it was renamed the American Society. His name is spelled both Davies and Davis in different documents, making it impossible to identify him with certainty as one of the several individuals by either of those names living in Philadelphia at the time. He attended the organization’s meetings diligently for several years, submitting queries on the ocean’s salt content and the formation of clouds. He was likely born into a Quaker family and may have been the Benjamin Davis who signed the 1765 Non-Importation Agreement, contributed to the Silk Society, and invested in Nova Scotia landholdings with Benjamin Franklin and others. It is not clear whether he was the Benjamin Davies who published a map of Philadelphia and an almanac entitled, The American Repository of Useful Information, between 1795 and 1799. (PI)

924	Name:	Rev. John Davis
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1737
	Death Date:	12/13/1772

	John Davis (1737–13 December 1772) was an educator, a minister, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born the son of a Baptist minister in New Castle County, Delaware, Davis would spend much of life trying to follow in his father’s footsteps. He studied first under Baptist minister Issac Eaton in Hopewell, New Jersey, before enrolling in the College of Philadelphia in 1760 where, again, he found guidance under Baptist minister Ebenezer Kinnersley. Davis made a good impression on his mentor which is the reason, days before graduating, the trustees offered him the position of usher in the English School in 1763. Shortly thereafter the trustees offered him the improved position of tutor in the Latin School which he accepted but within the year resigned. His next position of teaching mathematics at the Academy in Newark, Delaware also lasted only a few years before Davis left again to pursue ministry within the Baptist Church. He traveled to New England where, in 1770, was ordained and accepted a position at Boston’s Second Baptist Church. Again his stay proved brief. His failing health forced him to to leave only two years later and he sailed back to Philadelphia. Believing his health returned, Davis decided not to return to Boston and instead accompanied a group of Baptist settlers to the Ohio region before falling sick and dying near present day Moundsville, West Virginia. (PI)

925	Name:	John Davis
	Year Elected:	1811
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	6/14/1845

926	Name:	Isaac R. Davis
	Year Elected:	1851
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1809
	Death Date:	2/4/1857

927	Name:	Charles H. Davis
	Year Elected:	1852
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1807
	Death Date:	2/18/1877

928	Name:	William M. Davis
	Year Elected:	1883
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	10/-/1891

929	Name:	William M. Davis
	Year Elected:	1899
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1851
	Death Date:	2/5/34

930	Name:	Bradley M. Davis
	Year Elected:	1914
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1872
	Death Date:	3/13/57

931	Name:	John W. Davis
	Year Elected:	1924
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1937
	Death Date:	3/24/55

932	Name:	Arthur P. Davis
	Year Elected:	1927
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1861
	Death Date:	8/7/33

933	Name:	Harvey N. Davis
	Year Elected:	1935
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1881
	Death Date:	12/3/52

934	Name:	Dr. Kingsley Davis
	Institution:	Stanford University
	Year Elected:	1960
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1908
	Death Date:	2/27/97

935	Name:	Dr. Hallowell Davis
	Institution:	Central Institute for the Deaf
	Year Elected:	1965
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	209. Neurobiology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1896
	Death Date:	8/22/92

936	Name:	Dr. David Brion Davis
	Institution:	Yale University
	Year Elected:	1983
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1927
	Death Date:	April 14, 2019

	David Brion Davis was Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University at the time of his retirement. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1956 and joined the faculty at Yale in 1969 after teaching previously at Dartmouth and Cornell Universities. He also served as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University from 1969-70 and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences from 1972-73. A brilliant and sound historian, Dr. Davis was also known as one of the best literary stylists among United States historians. He wrote several books on slavery, including a multi-volume series, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966) and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975), which earned him a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize, among other honors. His other books include Homicide in American Fiction (1957) and Revolutions: American Equality and Foreign Liberations (1990). Dr. Davis also wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books. He was awarded the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, the Society of American Historians' Bruce Catton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Phi Beta Kappa's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (for Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World) in 2007. The last volume of his trilogy (which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, was released in 2014, the same year he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.David Brion Davis died April 14, 2019 in Guilford Connecticut at the age of 92.

937	Name:	Dr. Charles Till Davis
	Institution:	Tulane University
	Year Elected:	1998
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	4/10/98

938	Name:	Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis
	Institution:	University of Toronto; Princeton University
	Year Elected:	2011
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404a
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1928
	Death Date:	October 21, 2023

	Natalie Zemon Davis is a social and cultural historian of early modern times. She has written on peasants and artisans in early modern France; on women in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Québec; on criminality and storytelling in sixteenth-century France; on forms of gift-giving in early modern times; and on Muslims and Christians in sixteenth-century Europe. She is the author of eight books, all of them translated into various foreign languages: Society and Culture in Early Modern France; The Return of Martin Guerre (she was also historical consultant for the film Le Retour de Martin Guerre); Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales in Sixteenth-Century France; Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives; The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France; Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision; A Passion for History. Conversations with Denis Crouzet; Trickster Travels. A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds. Together with Arlette Farge, she was coeditor of volume 3 (Renasisssance and Enlightenment Paradoxes) of A History of Women, edited by Michelle Perrot and Georges Duby. She has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University, where she was Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. A former president of the American Historical Association and vice-president of the International Commission of Historical Sciences, she is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académique. She is the recipient of various prizes (including the 2010 Ludwig Holberg International Prize and the 2012 National Humanities Medal) and honorary degrees, including from Harvard University, the University of Toronto, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Cambridge University, Université de Lyon, Université de Toulouse, and Oxford University. Emerita from Princeton University, Natalie Zemon Davis is currently Adjunct Professor of History and Anthropology, Professor of Medieval Studies, and Senior Fellow in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Her present research is on slavery and forms of sociability in 18th-century Suriname, including the study of a slave family over four generations and of a Jewish settler family over six generations. She was awarded the 2014 Gold Medal in History from the Amercian Academy of Arts and Letters.

939	Name:	Ms. Lydia Davis
	Institution:	SUNY Albany
	Year Elected:	2021
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	501. Creative Artists
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1947

	Lydia Davis is a short story writer, novelist, essayist, translator, and Professor of English Emerita at the State University of New York, Albany. She earned her B.A. at Barnard College in 1968. She was a Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University in 2012. One of the most original writers in English today, Lydia Davis is often credited with having reinvented the modern short story. Some of her stories are a page long, some a paragraph, some a single sentence–a poetry of the everyday. She has translated French classics, including works by Proust and Flaubert. Her MacArthur Fellowship and Man Booker International Prize attest to the literary world's esteem. A sui generis artist of language, Davis surprises with every phrase, every sentence, and because her prose is so concentrated, it trains the reader to be alert to each linguistic detail. At the same time, her stories reveal human motivation so masterfully, they can be read as much for their psychological and moral penetration as for their brilliance of style. She is an internationally renowned radical writer, of the stature of Samuel Beckett. Davis's bibliography includes: The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories, 1976; Sketches for a Life of Wassily, 1981; Story and Other Stories, 1985; Break It Down (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award), 1986; The End of the Story, 1994; Almost No Memory, 1997; Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, 2001; Varieties of Disturbance (a finalist for the National Book Award), 2007; Proust, Blanchot, and a Woman in Red, 2007; The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, 2009; The Cows, 2011; Can't and Won't: Stories, 2014; Essays One, 2019. Of contemporary authors, only Davis, Stuart Dybek, and Alice Fulton share the distinction of appearing in both The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Poetry series. She received the 1988 Whiting Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 1998 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003, the American Academy of Arts and Letters's Award of Merit Medal in 2013, the Philolexian Society Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement, the Man Booker International Prize, and the 2020 PEN/Malamud Award. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2005. Davis was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2021.

940	Name:	Clinton J. Davisson
	Year Elected:	1929
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1881
	Death Date:	2/2/58

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