Jerry Max Davis
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Jerry Max Davis
|birth_date = {{birth date|1937|10|22}}
|birth_place = Carroll County, Georgia, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|2002|11|02|1937|10|22}}
|office = Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 45th district
|term_start = 1981
|term_end = 2002 (died in office)
|preceded = George B. Williamson
|succeeded =
|party = Republican{{Citation|title=Braddock's Federal-State-local Government Directory: Volume 2|page=|publisher=Braddock Publications|work=University of Georgia|date=1984}}
|spouse = Mary Donna Thomas{{Cite web|url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1981.pdf|title=Georgia Official and Statistical Register: 1981-1982|work=Georgia General Assembly|access-date=December 14, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/atlanta-ga/mary-davis-6242966|title=Mary Thomas Davis|work=Dignity Memorial|access-date=December 14, 2022}}
|alma_mater = University of Georgia
}}
Jerry Max Davis (October 22, 1937 – November 2, 2002) was an American politician. A lawyer, he served as a Republican member for the 45th district of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Life and career
J. Max Davis was born in Carroll County, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia and Woodrow Wilson College of Law. Qualified legally, he briefly played American football professionally for the Kansas City Chiefs, and later worked as an insurance claims representative, and later still as a lawyer.
In 1981, Davis was elected to the 45th district of the Georgia House of Representatives, covering part of Atlanta, succeeding George Williamson.{{Citation|title=1981 Georgia House of Representatives Results|work=Georgia General Assembly}} Described as a conservative Republican, he served until his death, at which time he was the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. Following a reapportionment in the Georgia House, and a lost primary, he was due to end his term in the House at the end of 2002.
Davis died in November 2002 at the age of 65, of a heart attack after attending a campaign meeting for George Bush.{{Cite web|url=http://www.avoc.info/info/article.php?article=691&ENGINEsessID=b9eed33897359a849fe9fd049d271dd8|title=Rep. J. Max Davis Dies Of Heart Attack|work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=November 4, 2002|access-date=December 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304230748/http://www.avoc.info/info/article.php?article=691&ENGINEsessID=b9eed33897359a849fe9fd049d271dd8|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=usurped|via=Wayback Machine}} His funeral was held at the Church of The Apostles in Atlanta.
Davis was married to Mary, and they had three children, Jerry Max Davis II, Todd Davis and Stacie Davis Rapson.
His son, J. Max Davis II, served as the first mayor of Brookhaven, Georgia.{{Cite web|url=https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2014/12/19/mary-davis-brookhaven-dies/|publisher=RoughDraft Atlanta|title=Mary Davis, Brookhaven mayor's mother passes away|date=December 19, 2014|access-date=February 22, 2022}}
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Category:People from Carroll County, Georgia
Category:University of Georgia alumni
Category:Republican Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives
Category:20th-century members of the Georgia General Assembly