John C. Davies
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John Clay Davies (May 1, 1920 - June 17, 2002) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Albany, he attended Camden High School, attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and Hamilton College (in Clinton, New York).
He was editor of the Camden Chronicle in 1940 and 1941, and maintained publicity office in Albany from 1941 to 1943. He was with the public relations department of Westinghouse Electric Corp. in New York City from 1943 to 1946, and was vice president of the Earle Ferris Co. Inc., in New York City from 1946 to 1948. From 1948 to 1953 he was a partner in a public relations business at Utica, New York.
Davies was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress, holding office from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1951. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-second Congress in 1950. He was a writer and a public relations executive in San Juan, Puerto Rico; in 2002 he died there.
