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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/>
==Death of Lt. Joseph Moore Davidson==
==Death of Lt. Joseph Moore Davidson==