P. O. Davis
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Posey Oliver "P.O" Davis (1890–1973), was an American educator and administrator, as well as a pioneering agricultural editor and broadcaster.
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Born | August 15, 1890 Skinhead Community, near Athens, Alabama |
Died | 1973 API, Auburn, Alabama |
Education | B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) |
Occupation(s) | Agricultural Editor Cooperative Extension Educator Administrator |
Spouse | Mildred Kilburn |
Parent(s) | Richard Scoggins and Milinda Elizabeth (Barker) Davis |
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He perhaps is best remembered as the longest serving director of the Alabama Extension Service (now known as the Alabama Cooperative Extension System) 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.[1]