ROBERT L. DAVIS Robert Davis was elected to the Board of County Commissioners in 1963, having campaigned for the seat vacated by Harry Chadwick. Davis was re-elected to a second term but died in office in 1967. A former congressman in Pennsylvania, Davis retired to Pinellas County in 1952. Born in 1893, he had been 25 years with the E.I. DuPont Co. of Philadelphia, then with DuPont Engineering, and finally in real estate and insurance in Ocean City, New Jersey. After coming to Pinellas, Davis became a county dredge–and–fill inspector and, with his experience in both business and government, decided to run for county commissioner. He often took unpopular stands, for instance, refusing to support a resolution which would have requested that the sheriff simply overlook the playing of bingo and guest games. As a commissioner, he voted against the entire county budget of 1965-1966, believing it required too much in taxes to balance.
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