Quitman, US
Country, Religious
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In a performing career spanning eight decades of the 20th century, Jimmie Davis embraced both risqué country-blues and later traditional gospel, meanwhile maintaining a concurrent public-service career that saw him twice elected governor of Louisiana.

In fact, his greatest musical successes came during his two terms as governor, once in the mid-'40s and again in the early '60s.