Spoiler : Davis, Jimmie (birth name was James Houston Davis, aka The Singing Governor) Born in Quitman, Louisiana 9/11/18992; died 11/5/2000 in Baton Rouge, Louisi- ana. Married to former gospel singer, Anna Carter Gordon (1969-2000 his death). Davis was the son of sharecroppers. He and his ten siblings lived in dire poverty, but he managed to pay his way through Louisiana College and Louisiana State University working as a street musician. After graduate school, he taught social science and history at Dodd College for Women, supporting himself with a singing job on a local radio station. Davis got a chance to record one of his songs when a record talent scout heard him on a broadcast, in 1934 he recorded his tune, "Nobody's Darling, But Mine." His 1931 tune, "You Are My Sunshine," became a 1939 hit song. Screen debut in Riding Through Nevada (1942). Last movie was Square Dance Kitty (1950).

Spoiler : Governor of Louisiana (1944-1948); again (1960-1964); ran again in 1971 but was defeated. Voted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1972.