Albert W. Jefferis, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Albert W. Jefferis

American politician

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1868

Date of Death: 14-Sep-1942

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Albert W. Jefferis

  • Albert Webb Jefferis (December 7, 1868 – September 14, 1942) was an American Republican Party politician. Born near Embreville, Pennsylvania, he attended public schools in Romansville, Pennsylvania and the West Chester Normal School for three years.
  • He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1893 and was admitted to the bar in the same year.
  • He set up practice in Omaha, Nebraska.
  • Jefferis was also the head football coach at Doane College—now known as Doane University—in Crete, Nebraska, for one season, in 1893.Jefferis was a member of various Republican State and county committees.
  • He was assistant county attorney for Douglas County, Nebraska, from 1896 to 1898.
  • He ran in 1908 for the Sixty-first United States Congress and lost.
  • He then became chairman of the Republican State convention in 1910.
  • He succeeded in being elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses serving from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1923.
  • He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 1922 against Robert Beecher Howell. Jefferis resumed the practice of law in Omaha.
  • He was elected a delegate at large to the 1924 Republican National Convention.
  • He was also the manager of the Coolidge-Dawes automobile caravan from Plymouth, Vermont, to Bellingham, Washington.
  • He resumed his practice of law in Omaha, trying once more unsuccessfully candidate for United States Senator in 1940.
  • He failed to get the nomination.
  • He died at Omaha, Nebraska, on September 14, 1942, and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha. Jefferis was a member of the Congregationalist Church, as well as a Freemason, an Elk, a Woodmen, and a member of Delta Chi.

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