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Davis was a critic of Lincoln during his time in Congress, where he represented Maryland in the House of Representatives. He coauthored the congressional Reconstruction plan during the American Civil War. He appears in Frances Miller Seward's letter to William Henry Seward on August 23, 1864 because she references the Wade-Davis Bill. 

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