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Edwin Adams Davis
BornMay 10, 1904
Alba, Missouri, USA
DiedApril 24, 1994(1994-04-24) (aged 89)
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Alma materKansas State Teachers College
University of Iowa
Louisiana State University
Occupation(s)Historian
Professor at Louisiana State University
SpouseLa Verna Mae Rowe Davis
ChildrenEdwin Adams Davis Jr
Parent(s)Frank Byrd and Willie Belle Greever Davis
President of the Louisiana Historical Association
Succeeded byKenneth Trist Urquhart

Edwin Adams Davis (May 10, 1904 – April 24, 1994)[1][2] was an American historian who specialized in studies of his adopted state of Louisiana. A long-time professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, he was particularly known for two textbooks, Louisiana: A Narrative History[3] and Louisiana: The Pelican State, the latter for middle schools and coauthored with Joe Gray Taylor of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana .[4]

  1. ^ "Edwin Adams Davis". records.ancestry.com. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  2. ^ Historical News and Notices The Journal of Southern History Vol. 61, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 195-206 (12 pages)
  3. ^ Louisiana: A Narrative. Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing. 1971. ISBN 978-0875110219.
  4. ^ Edwin Adams Davis, Raleigh A. Suarez, and Joe Gray Taylor, Louisiana: The Pelican State. Louisiana State University Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0807111444.

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