Edwin Adams Davis
| Edwin Adams Davis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1904 Missouri, USA |
| Died | April 24, 1994 Place of death missing |
| Residence | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University |
| Occupation |
Historian Professor at Louisiana State University |
| Spouse(s) | La Verna Mae Rowe Davis |
| Children | One |
| Parent(s) | Frank Byrd and Willie Belle Greever Davis |
Kansas State Teachers College
University of Iowa
Edwin Adams Davis (1904 – April 24, 1994) was an American historian who specialized in studies of his adopted state of Louisiana. A long-time professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, he was particularly known for two textbooks, Louisiana: A Narrative History and Louisiana: The Pelican State, the latter for middle schools and coauthored with Joe Gray Taylor of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana .
A Missouri native, Davis was the son of Frank Byrd Davis (1873-1932) and the former Willie Belle Greever (1873-1913), who died when Davis was eight or nine. Davis married the former La Verna Mae Rowe (1905 - date of death missing), and they had one child.
Davis graduated from the former Kansas State Teachers College, now Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, and received his advanced degrees at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa and LSU.
In addition to his professorial duties at LSU, Davis is considered the "father of the Louisiana state archives." There were no state archives prior to 1936 even though no other state possessed the volume and variety of European colonial and American territorial records as did Louisiana. Davis convinced the LSU administration to develop a systematic preservation of state records. The state legislature in 1936 empowered the university archives to act as the depository for public records of state government, a role which LSU filled for two decades.
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