Davis served under Zachary Taylor starting in 1832.

Pemberton served as Davis ' overseer, an unusual position for a slave in Mississippi.

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.

Having served since February as the provisional president, Davis was elected to a full six-year term on November 6, 1861 and was inaugurated on February 22, 1862.

During her career, Davis served on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild for nearly ten years.

It is the work of the famous geographer William Morris Davis who not only made important contributions to the establishment of discipline in his country, but revolutionized the field to develop geographical cycle theory which he proposed as a paradigm for Geography in general, although in actually served as a paradigm for Physical Geography.

During the Civil War, Lee originally served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis.

Charles Davis also served as color commentator from 2007 to 2008.

Cain was also responsible for the appointment as Governor of Davis McCaughey, then aged 71, who served from 1986 to 1992.

Public education in Davis County is served by the Davis School District.

Western Jeff Davis County is served by the Valentine Independent School District, while central and eastern Jeff Davis County is served by the Fort Davis Independent School District.

Another Claiborne Parish educator, John Sparks Patton, once ran against Harris for education superintendent and himself served on the Louisiana Public Service Commission until he was unseated in 1942 by Jimmie Davis.

Joseph Graham " Gray " Davis, Jr. ( born December 26, 1942 ) is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003.

Prior to serving as Governor, Davis served as Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown ( 1975 – 1981 ), a California State Assemblyman ( 1983 – 1987 ), California State Controller ( 1987 – 1995 ) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California ( 1995 – 1999 ).

Previously, Richard Davis, served in that capacity since 1989.

During the eleven years that Corydon served as a capital it was the center of politics in the state, and its residents included Davis Floyd, Governors of Indiana Jonathan Jennings and Ratliff Boon ( the first and second, respectively ), first Speaker of the Senate Dennis Pennington, and William Hendricks, who was the first Congressman, third governor and Senator.

He served on the Governor Jimmie Davis Tabernacle Board.

Shreveport attorney Jackson B. Davis, who served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1956 – 1980, was born near Lecompte.

Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and reading skills and with Children's Technology Group to create MindWalker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre-set list.

Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol.

Examples include the concrete obelisk located at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Christian County, Kentucky, marking his birthplace.

During a stop in Los Angeles, Parker had a nervous breakdown that landed him in the Camarillo State Mental Hospital for several months, and Davis found himself stranded.

A number of multinational firms have their Japanese offices in Roppongi, including investment banks Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, State Street, manufacturer Corning Incorporated, and law firms Allen & Overy, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

In 1937 the gravestone for Harriet Tubman Davis was erected by the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs ; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

In 2001 Eastwood was appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission by Governor Davis, then reappointed in 2004 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

* Joseph Davis State Park, along the Niagara River.

Montgomery was named the first capital of the nation, and Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President on the steps of the State Capitol.

An important reason for their strong finish was the re-acquisition of Dale Davis, who had been released by the New Orleans Hornets after being traded there by the Golden State Warriors.

* alt = State Route 113 enters the county southeast of Davis and continues through the northeastern terminus near Knights Landing.

The concept of a matriarchal golden age in the Neolithic Age has been denounced as feminist wishful thinking in The Inevitability of Patriarchy, in Why Men Rule, more recently by Philip G. Davis in Goddess Unmasked ( 1998 ), and by Cynthia Eller, professor at Montclair State University, in The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory ( 2000 ).

The county is bounded on the east by Brewster County, on the north by Jeff Davis County, and on the south and west for by the Rio Grande and Mexico along which it faces on its south side the Manuel Benavides and Ojinaga Districts of the state of Chihuaha, Mexico and on its southwestern side the municipality of Guadalupe of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Davis Mountains State Park opened to the public in the 1930s.

* Davis Mountains State Park, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

* Jefferson Davis State Historic Site

The origin of the county's name is debated: according to the State Library, it was named for John Floyd, a leading Jefferson County, Kentucky pioneer and uncle of Davis Floyd.

The first oil in Louisiana was drilled in 1901 in what became Jeff Davis Parish by W. Scott Heywood, who in 1932 was elected to the Louisiana State Senate.

Davis ran for State Treasurer in 1974 but lost when the more popular Jesse Unruh filed to run on the deadline.

In 1976, while Chief of Staff, Davis was suspended from the State Bar of California on the first of two occasions for failure to pay his yearly State Bar dues on time.

In 1986, Davis ran against six other contenders in his race for State Controller ; several of those candidates, including Democrat John Garamendi and Republican Bill Campbell, were arguably better known at the time.

In 2008, NanoTech Entertainment acquired the rights from Davis for the use & distribution of the engine for inclusion with its Pinball Wizard PC Controller.

McCarthy retired from public office at the end of his third term as lieutenant governor on January 2, 1995, having been prohibited from seeking re-election to a fourth term in office due to term limits in state law and was succeeded by fellow Democratic then-State Controller and future Governor Gray Davis.