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Lynn Arthur Davis (July 7, 1933 – September 15, 2011)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lynn Arthur Davis obit )〕 was an attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas, who lectured and penned nonfiction crime thrillers based on his past experiences in law enforcement. He was a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, short-term director of the Arkansas State Police, and U.S. marshal for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Author: Lynn Davis )〕 The conservative columnist Christopher Ruddy once described Davis as "Arkansas’ version of Eliot Ness,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arkansas’ Murderous Ways )〕 a reference to the Prohibition agent who fought organized crime in Chicago during the 1930s and was portrayed in an ABC television series ''The Untouchables'' by the late Robert Stack. After his graduation from Arkansas High School in his native Texarkana in Miller County in southwestern Arkansas, Davis attended Henderson State University in Arkadelphia in south Arkansas. Three children were born to the marriage of Lynn and Elsie Sue Davis (born 1931): Anthony George "Tony" Davis, Kristy Davis, and Clayton Taylor Davis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arkansas State Police Project: Lynn A. Davis, August 18, 2003 )〕 In 1975, when he was forty-two, Davis obtained his law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School. He practiced law for nearly three decades until his retirement in 2008.〔 Davis served as a second lieutenant and then a major in the Arkansas Army National Guard.〔 ==Arkansas state police== Shortly after Winthrop Rockefeller took office as the first Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction, he appointed Davis to head the state police. Davis was assigned to destroy illegal casino gambling] in Hot Springs, sometimes called the "City of Vapors" because of its public mineral baths and also the name of a popular nightclub. Davis' account of those events highlights his book ''They Said It Couldn't Be Done''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''They Said It Couln’t Be Done'' )〕 In earlier years, Hot Springs had fallen under the influence of such mobsters as Al Capone, Frank Costello, and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who was arrested in New York City along with the Hot Springs chief of detectives on charges of ninety counts of prostitution brought by District Attorney and later Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The Hot Springs story was rated No. 1 by Associated Press for the year 1967. Davis' book describes the police raids that Davis conducted and the seizure of slot machines and other gambling paraphernalia. The raids were not conducted only in Hot Springs but in some eight other communities to show a random search pattern. The story is also depicted in the Gangster Museum, located on Central Avenue in Hot Springs.〔 Early in 1967, Davis was working in the FBI office in Los Angeles when he requested a transfer to Little Rock because of his mother's declining health. He had been with the bureau for nearly seven years at the time and was just shy of his 34th birthday. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover implied that he would reassign Davis to Arkansas. Meanwhile, Davis was approached by a spokesman for Winthrop Rockefeller about the state police position. He readily accepted but held the job for only 128 days and was never paid for his services.〔 At the end of his police tenure, Davis spent a few days in jail in Little Rock for refusal to divulge the identity of an informant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1967-Hot Springs, AR )〕 Davis' short tenure was a result of his having lived outside Arkansas prior to his appointment. The Arkansas Supreme Court declared him ineligible for the position because he did not meet the ten-year residency requirement. Arkansas’ Democratic lawmakers refused to change the residency rule as a way of defying the Republican governor.〔''The New York Times'', January 9, 28, 1968〕〔John L. Ward, ''The Arkansas Rockefeller'', Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1978, pp. 104-105〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lynn A. Davis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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