Death and Legacy
Davis had been a member of the American Bar Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, Freemasons, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Psi. He was a resident of Nassau County, New York and practiced law in New York City until his death in Charleston, South Carolina at the age of 81. He is interred at Locust Valley Cemetery in Glen Cove, New York.
The John W. Davis Federal building on West Pike street in Clarksburg, West Virginia is named after Davis.
The John W. Davis dormitory at Washington and Lee University is named for him, as is the Law School's appellate advocacy program, and award for the graduating student with the highest grade point average.
In the 1991 television film Separate But Equal, a dramatization of the Brown case, Davis was portrayed by the famed actor Burt Lancaster in his final film role.
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