Danny K. Davis

Danny K. Davis was born in Parkdale, Arkansas, on September 6, 1941, and graduated from Savage High School in Parkdale in 1957. He earned a B.A. from Arkansas A.M.&N. College in Pine Bluff in 1961, an M.S. from Chicago State University in 1968 and a Ph.D. from Union Institute in Cincinnati in 1977. He was a clerk at the Chicago Post Office from 1961 to 1965 and a teacher in the Chicago public schools from 1962 to 1968. He was executive director of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission in 1969, director of training at the Martin L. King Neighborhood Health Center from 1969 to 1971, and executive director of the Westside Health Planning Organization from 1975 to 1981.

Davis served as an alderman on the Chicago city council from 1979 to 1990 and as a Cook County board commissioner from 1990 to 1996. He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to Congress in 1984 and 1986. He was elected as a Democrat to the 105th Congress and has served in the House since January 3, 1997. He serves on the Committee on Ways and Means.