Rich Davis

Richard E. "Rich" Davis (1926 – October 6, 2015) founded KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce.

Davis began his career as a child psychiatrist, instructor and author. His academic posts included appointments as professor and acting chairman of the department of psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and later, as dean of the School of Medicine at the University of North Dakota. Creator of K.C. Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce. In 1986 he sold the sauce to the Kingsford division of Clorox Inc.

Davis, born in Joplin, Missouri, graduated from Topeka High School in 1944 and served a year and a half in the army. After World War II, he attended Washburn University, Columbia University and Colorado College. While at Washburn, he was initiated into the Kansas Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta. He received a medical degree from the University of Kansas in 1954.

Board Certified Adult and Child Psychiatrist.

Board Examiner in Psychiatry and Neurology 1972-1986.

Co-Academic Founder as Associate Dean of the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.

Vice-President of Health Affairs and Dean of the medical school at the University of North Dakota, where helped gain accreditation as a four-year medical school.

Published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Davis identified Manic-Depressive [Bi-polar] syndrome in childhood and its treatment. In 1983, he presented the use of lithium as a treatment at The World Congress of Psychiatry in Vienna.

In 1977, he moved to Kansas City and began marketing various culinary concepts including Muschup (a combination of ketchup and mustard), Dilled Muschup and K.C. Soul Style Barbecue Sauce.

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