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词条 Rex D. Davis
释义

  1. Personal

  2. Awards & memberships

  3. Career

  4. Writings

  5. See also

  6. References

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Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, public affairs fellow, 1965–1966


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Rex Darwin Davis (1924–2008) was a federal law enforcement officer in the United States, with a long career in the U.S. Treasury Department. He was the first director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, subsequently known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Personal

Mr. Davis was born June 11, 1924, in Skiatook, Oklahoma. He began his education at the University of Oklahoma in 1942, but interrupted it for World War II military service (1943–1946). After the war, he married (1946) and completed a law degree (1949). Later in his career, he was a visiting student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School (1965–1966).

He was a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Forces, 1942–1945, and flew thirty-three combat missions with Eighth Air Force, England. He returned to civilian life a first lieutenant, decorated with the Air Medal and Purple Heart.[1]

He was a strong supporter of the Brady Campaign against gun violence.[3][2] He was a founding member of the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington.[4]

He died of complications from a colon infection, January 7, 2008, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Awards & memberships

  • William A. Jump Memorial Foundation Meritorious Award for contributions to operating procedures in administering the Alcohol and Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service.
  • International Platform Association
  • Federal Bar Association
  • Federal Business Association
  • Pi Kappa Alpha
  • Greenhills (Ohio) Golf and Country Club

Career

  • U.S. Treasury Department, criminal investigator (agent), in McAlester, Oklahoma, (1949–1955)
  • part-time law instructor and assistant director at Treasury Law Enforcement School, Washington, D.C., 1953–1961
  • special investigator in Richmond, Virginia, 1955–1958
  • enforcement examiner on national office staff, Washington, D.C., 1958–1962
  • executive assistant to assistant regional commissioner, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division, Internal Revenue Service, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1962–1966
  • assistant regional commissioner 1966–[1]
  • director of the IRS ATF division (1970–1972)
  • director of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (apart from the IRS) (1972–1978)
  • retired from federal service (1978)[2]
  • head of three trade associations in the alcoholic-beverages industry (after 1978)[2]
  • president of the National Association of Beverage Importers
  • president and chief executive of New Europe Wines
  • executive director of the President's Forum of the Beverage Alcohol Industry.[4]

Writings

  • {{cite book |first=Rex D. |last=Davis |authorlink=Rex D. Davis

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  • Contributor to Police.

See also

{{Portal|World War II|United States|Law enforcement/Law enforcement topics|United States Air Force}}

References

1. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: H1000023753. Fee via Fairfax County Public Library, accessed 2009-05-03.
2. ^{{cite news |title=Rex D. Davis *66 |url=http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2008/04/23/sections/memorials/3190/index.xml |work=Princeton Alumni Weekly |date=April 23, 2008 |accessdate=2009-05-03 |publisher=Princeton University |format= |agency= |curly= |author= |first= |last= |authorlink= |author2= |author3= |author4= |author5= |author6= |author7= |location= |isbn= |issn= |oclc= |pmid= |pmd= |bibcode= |doi= |id= |page= | pages= |language = |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=}}
3. ^{{cite news |title=Statement of Brady President Paul Helmke on the Passing of Rex D. Davis |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS168263+01-Apr-2008+PRN20080401 |format= |agency= |work= |publisher=Reuters |location=Washington, D.C. |date=April 1, 2008 |page= | pages= |accessdate=2009-05-04 |curly= |author= |first= |last= |authorlink= |author2= |author3= |author4= |author5= |author6= |author7= |isbn= |issn= |oclc= |pmid= |pmd= |bibcode= |doi= |id= |language = |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=}}
4. ^{{cite news |title=Rex Davis, 83; ATF Ex-Chief, Moonshiners' Foe |first=Joe |last=Holley |authorlink=Joe Holley |curly= |author= |author2= |author3= |author4= |author5= |author6= |author7= |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003831.html |agency= |work=Washington Post |date=January 11, 2008 |page=B07 |accessdate=2009-05-04 |publisher= |location= |isbn= |issn= |oclc= |pmid= |pmd= |bibcode= |doi= |id= |language = |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=}}
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13 : 1924 births|2008 deaths|People from Skiatook, Oklahoma|Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs alumni|University of Oklahoma alumni|Disease-related deaths in Maryland|Recipients of the Air Medal|American military personnel of World War II|United States Department of the Treasury officials|Internal Revenue Service people|United States Army Air Forces officers|Burials at Arlington National Cemetery|Directors of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

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