P. O. Davis

Deceased Person

1890 – 1973

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Who was P. O. Davis?

Posey Oliver “P.O” Davis, was an American educator and administrator, as well as a pioneering agricultural editor and broadcaster.

He perhaps is best remembered as the longest serving director of the Alabama Extension Service and for helping Alabama agriculture through a critical period of development.

Davis also emerged as a national leader of and advocate for farming and Cooperative Extension work in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Born
Aug 15, 1890
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Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Auburn University
Lived in
  • Alabama
  • Auburn
Died
1973

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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