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8 unusual facts about Jimmie Davis


Cecil Morgan

From 1944 to 1948, Morgan served at the request of anti-Long Governor James Houston "Jimmie" Davis on the Louisiana Civil Service Commission.

Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs

Many of the album's songs were cover versions, including "In the Garden," "Just a Closer Walk with Thee," Jimmie Davis's "I Wouldn't Take Anything from My Journey Now," and Martha Carson's "Satisfied."

# "I Wouldn't Take Nothing from My Journey Now" – (Jimmie Davis, Charles R. Goodman)

James H. Davis

Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis, 1899–2000), American singer and governor of Louisiana

Plantation Records

In the late 1970s the label signed a number of veteran country performers to the label including Webb Pierce, Jimmie Davis, Jimmy C. Newman, Hank Locklin, and Roy Drusky though few of these records charted.

Risley C. Triche

Triche was originally a segregationist during the administration of Governor Jimmie Davis.

Roy R. Theriot

Theriot became comptroller in the second administration of Governor Jimmie Davis and served throughout the tenure of John McKeithen and the first year of Edwin Washington Edwards' first term.

Wagonmaster

# Porter & Marty: Men with Broken Hearts / (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle (Jimmie Davis, Hank Williams) – 6:04


Blanche Long

In May 1960, outgoing Governor Long attended the inauguration of his successor, Jimmie Davis, in the company of a 23-year-old stripper and burlesque dancer named Blaze Starr, whom he had first met in 1958.

Leon Gary

He succeeded Claude Kirkpatrick, the DPW director under Jimmie Davis, who had run in the 1963 Democratic primary for governor against McKeithen and a large field of other candidates.


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