 She became an active member of the Republican Party and was the head of the Woman’s Auxiliary during Wendell Willkie’s campaign to unseat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.La Guardia's tenure marked the end of the Tammany power in New York, and Davie's political influence gradually faded over the ensuing decades.Davie made "a handsome gift" to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee while Harvie Branscomb was chancellor.