H. Harold Davis is a pioneer and leader in the field of color photography. He was former Chief Color Photographer at The Louisville Courier-Journal and in 1938, he was the first photographer to photograph a United States president in color. Davis was known for his color essays on life in the states of Kentucky and Indiana, he was published in the Courier-Journal’s Sunday Magazine. He photographed every president and presidential candidate from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon as well as every Kentucky candidate for governor and U.S. Senate. He repeatedly won awards in the University of Missouri’s “News Pictures of the Year” competitions. His work was chronicled in the book This Place Kentucky, which was published in 1975. He received a “Master Photographer” degree from the Professional Photographers Association of America in 1953. He was born in Corydon, Indiana. He retired in 1973. H. Harold Davis died in 1980.