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Jackson B. Davis
Jackson Beauregard Davis, Sr. (born March 27, 1918),〔 is an American attorney based in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate from 1956 to 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2008 )〕 Now in his nineties, Davis still practices law and is active in community affairs, often addressing public gatherings. He is a survivor of the World War II Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
==Background==
Davis was born near Lecompte in south Rapides Parish, one of three children of Jesse Octo Davis (1893-1996) and the former Litha Pittman (1893-1961), the daughter of Jackson Boyd Pittman (1867-1949) and the former Lillie Evellon Davis Pittman (1874-1968) of Alexandria. Not long before Thanksgiving Day in 1961, Litha Davis, who was then living in Baton Rouge, and her sister, Essie Pittman Linzay (1897-1961) of Amite in Tangipahoa Parish, and a third woman, Mrs. Herman Golmon of Hillsdale in St. Helena Parish, were killed in a two-car crash at Pine Grove, also in St. Helena Parish in southeastern Louisiana. Davis' sisters were Marjorie D. Guidry (1919-2009) of Nacogdoches, Texas,〔 and Litha Pittman Davis Keator (1921-2012), who retired to Shreveport in 1968 after living in several locations with her late husband, United States Army and then Air Force Colonel Randall Denison Keator (1917-1981), originally from Campti in Natchitoches Parish. Davis' parents are interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Litha Pittman Davis )〕
Davis studied at Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville from 1932 to 1933, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, from 1933 to 1934, and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from 1934 to 1936. He obtained a master's degree from LSU in 1937 and his Bachelor of Laws in 1940 from Louisiana State University Law Center. Jackson volunteered for military service and received an officer's commission in the United States Navy.〔"Louisiana: Davis, Jackson Beauregard", ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2003-2004'', 19th ed., Vol. 1 (Alabama-Montana) (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, New Jersey, 2003), p. 775〕 Assigned to naval intelligence, he was stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for the duration of World War II. Davis arrived in Hawaii on September 7, 1941, on the . Though personally spared injury, he was awakened in his hotel room to the first wave of bombing by the Japanese that was unleashed on the morning of December 7, 1941.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jackson B. Davis, Lieutenant Commander )〕 He worked in traffic analysis, codebreaking, and communications in the basement of the Fourteenth Naval District headquarters building there. He was discharged as a lieutenant commander in January 1946.〔〔
Davis's law office is located at 920 Pierremont Road, Suite 100. In 2009, he entered his 63rd year as a practicing attorney.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FindLaw )〕
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