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===Senator=== Because of his war service, the [[governor of Mississippi]] appointed Davis to fill out the [[United States Senate|senate]] term of the late [[Jesse Speight]]. He took his seat December 5, 1847, and was elected to serve the remainder of his term in January 1848. In addition, the [[Smithsonian Institution]] appointed him a [[regent]] at the end of December 1847. Davis introduced an amendment to the [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]] to annex most of [[northeastern Mexico]]. It failed 44-11. The senate made Davis chairman of the [[United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs|Committee on Military Affairs]]. When his term expired he was elected to the same seat (by the Mississippi legislature, as the constitution mandated at the time). He had not served a year when he resigned (in September 1851) to run for the governorship of Mississippi on the issue of the [[Compromise of 1850]], which Davis opposed. This election bid was unsuccessful, as he was defeated by fellow Senator [[Henry Stuart Foote]] by 999 votes.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi |last=Rowland |first=Dunbar |year= 1912 |series= Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History | publisher=Press of Brandon Printing Company |location=Nashville, Tennessee |page=111 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-MoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA111&vq=foote&dq=henry+s+foote+1851&source=gbs_search_s&cad=0 |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref> Left without political office, Davis continued his political activity. He took part in a convention on [[states' rights]], held at [[Jackson, Mississippi]], in January 1852. In the weeks leading up to the [[U.S. presidential election, 1852|presidential election of 1852]], he campaigned in numerous Southern states for Democratic candidates [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[William R. King]].
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