Frank Marshall Davis

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Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905 - July 26, 1987) was a journalist, poet, Communist Party member and mentor to presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas. He studied journalism at Friends University in 1923 and Kansas State Agricultural College from 1924 to 1929 but failed to receive a degree. He later made a career for himself as an editor and writer in the Chicago and Atlanta areas working for Black newspapers and the Associated Negro Press. Davis married a white woman from Chicago, Helen Canfield. In 1948 they moved to Hawaii. In 1951 the Hawaiian Commission on Subversive Activities identified Frank Marshall Davis as a Communist Party member.

Barack Obama knew Davis in the 1970s in Hawaii in what was described as a father-son relationship. Obama refers to him in his book, Dreams From My Father as "Frank", taking care to conceal his identity.


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