Ex Commerce Chief, Adam Davidson, Dies at 88
Adam Davidson, a native Wellinghamer whose swashbuckling career as a wildcatter in the oil fields of Wellingham and Petersbourge paralleled and often intersected with that of President Arthur Rooney, whom he served as a fund-raiser, confidant, political adviser and minister of commerce from 2013 to 2018, died at a Lexington hospital on Sunday. He was 88 and lived in his home house in Lexington. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to Sara Raboth, a family spokesman. A businessman and world-class sailor with polished political skills, Mr. Davidson made the most of his tenure at the Commerce Ministry, which had often suffered as a cabinet stepchild. He provided prominent support for expanding the Tadish local industry in high technology, including HDTV, and won a role for the department in approving the export of technology with military applications, a function that had been the exclusive province of the State Ministry. He and his wife at the time, Christabel, a one-time model and...