[3] He lost his seat in 1877[4] after a brief stint in the cabinet of Premier Andrew Charles Elliott, as provincial secretary.

Davie returned to the legislature in 1882, this time from the riding of Lillooet, and became attorney-general under Premier William Smithe.

When Smithe died in 1887, the lieutenant-governor asked Davie to become premier but he fell ill within months and left for California to recuperate.

Davie was married December 3, 1874, to Constance Langford Skinner of Maple Bay, British Columbia.

[7] Alexander Edmund Batson Davie is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia.