Arthur Davis

    

The Honorable Arthur Davis MP
File:Rep. Jeremy Munson.jpg Official office portrait
Member of the House of Delegates for the Renville Area (Minnesota's 10th district)
Incumbent
Assumed office October 6, 2011
Preceded by	Leon Hawkins
Majority	8.1%
Member of the Minnesota State Assembly for the Renville Community
In office March 2, 2008 – October 6, 2011
Preceded by	Michael Kennedy
Succeeded by	Jacob Willington
Personal details
Born	(1975-06-15) June 15, 1975 Saint Anthony, Minnesota, Superior
Political party	United Conservative (2020–Present)
Other political affiliations	Reform (2004–2020) Independent (1995–2004)
Spouse(s)	Maria Davis (m. 1999)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Augustus

Arthur Carl Davis (born June 15, 1975) is a Superian politician serving as a member of the House of Delegates of Superior for the Renville Area since 2011. Previously a member of the Reform Party, Davis changed his political affiliation and joined the United Conservative Party in 2020 and has since then been serving as a United Conservative MP. A native of the state of Minnesota, Davis had originally been a member of the Minnesota State Assembly for the 9th district as part of the Reform Party when he joined the party in 2004 and served in the lower house from 2008 until 2011.

A native to the state of Minnesota, Davis was born in the city of Saint Anthony and was raised in Renville County. He would graduate high school in 1993 and attend the University of Augustus from 1996 until his graduation in 2001. While at college, he married his girlfriend Maria Jackson and the two have been together since 1999. Davis was originally a registered independent and had no interest in either of the major parties during the 1990s which were the Liberal Democrats, Conservative Party and United Popular Front. While he was interested in the new emerging parties of the time, he wouldn't join them until 2004 when he joined the Reform Party in 2004. He wound run in 2008 for the 9th district in the Minnesota State Assembly and beat Liberal Democrat incumbent Michael Kennedy and was one of the first Reform Party politicians to be elected to the Minnesota State Legislature.

He would run in the 2011 Superian federal election where he defeated the United Conservative incumbent Leon Hawkins and would serve as a Reform Party member in the House of Delegates. Over the course of his political career, his political positions would change and by 2018, he identified as a liberal conservative and worked with many United Conservative MPs. By 2019, he began voicing disagreements with the liberal stance of the Reform Party and its leader Mark Colton and in January 2020 he left the party to join the United Conservatives. In the subsequent snap election later that year, Davis was re-elected and defeated his Reform opponent Grace Hughes.

Davis' political positions have altered throughout the course of his career as he originally identified as a centrist when he was Minnesota state representative and in the early years of his tenure as a Member of Parliament. Around 2014 he began to adopt more center-right positions and represented the moderate conservative/center-right faction of the Reform Party to the point that he publically opposed the party's membership in the Progressive Bloc and supported its exit in 2018. On social issues, Davis identifies as pro-choice viewing abortion as a private matter that neither the federal or any state government should be involved in, but supports banning it once the fetus is in the third trimester. Davis supports allowing states to raise the minimum wage and favors a graduale increase on the federal level as a compromise. On foreign policy, he largely supports the Conference of American States, in contrast to the rest of the United Conservative Party, and is opposed to normalizing relations with the United Commonwealth.