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Davidson was a founder and the general manager of the powerful Panola Company, an agricultural entity based in St. Joseph which controlled at one point eleven thousand acres of valuable farmland. James Howard Netterville (1879-1943) supervised three of its most valuable holdings, the Balmoral, Blackwater, and Wyoming plantations.<ref name=eastla/> He sat on the board of the Bank of St. Joseph, the most stable financial institution in Tensas Parish. He worked to bring the USDA Agricultural Experiment Station to St. Joseph and [[lobbying|lobbied]] for construction of the Mississippi River bridge at Natchez, which linked the lower delta country to one of it major trade cities.<ref name=bio/>​

Davidson was a founder and the general manager of the powerful Panola Company, an agricultural entity based in St. Joseph which controlled at one point eleven thousand acres of valuable farmland. James Howard Netterville (1879-1943) supervised three of its most valuable holdings, the Balmoral, Blackwater, and Wyoming plantations.<ref name=eastla/> He sat on the board of the Bank of St. Joseph, the most stable financial institution in Tensas Parish. He worked to bring the USDA Agricultural Experiment Station to St. Joseph and [[lobbying|lobbied]] for construction of the Mississippi River bridge at Natchez, which linked the lower delta country to one of it major trade cities.<ref name=bio/>​

 

Davidson was the first mayor of St. Joseph from its incorporation in 1901 until his death some twenty-nine years later.<ref>Davidson obituary, ''Tensas Gazette'', January 24, 1930.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tensas/court/elec0001.txt|title=List of mayors of St. Joseph, Louisiana|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=August 2, 2013}}</ref>​

Davidson was the first mayor of St. Joseph from its incorporation in 1901 until his death some twenty-nine years later.<ref>Davidson obituary, ''Tensas Gazette'', January 24, 1930.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tensas/court/elec0001.txt|title=List of mayors of St. Joseph, Louisiana|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=August 2, 2013}}</ref>​

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As the office of mayor in such small communities was and remains part-time, Davidson was also the Tensas Parish treasurer for some three decades.<ref name=eastla/> He was heavily involved in partisan activities of both the parish and the state committees of the [[Democratic Party]]. He was a [[conservative]] Democrat, whose political views were shaped by the aftermath of the Civil War and [[Reconstruction]]. He had managed to put the grief of Confederate defeat, known in history and literature as the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, behind him, particularly with the arrival of the promise of the 20th century.<ref name=bio/>​

As the office of mayor in such small communities was and remains part-time, Davidson was also the Tensas Parish treasurer for some three decades.<ref name=eastla/> He was heavily involved in partisan activities of both the parish and the state committees of the [[Democratic Party]]. He was a [[conservative]] Democrat, whose political views were shaped by the aftermath of the Civil War and [[Reconstruction]]. He had managed to put the grief of Confederate defeat, known in history and literature as the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, behind him, particularly with the arrival of the promise of the 20th century.<ref name=bio/>​

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==Death of Lt. Joseph Moore Davidson==

==Death of Lt. Joseph Moore Davidson==

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