- Albert W. Jefferis
Albert Webb Jefferis (1868 – 1942) was a
Nebraska Republican politician.Born near
Embreville, Pennsylvania , he attended public schools inRomansville, Pennsylvania and theWest Chester, Pennsylvania statenormal school for three years. He graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Michigan , atAnn Arbor, Michigan in 1893 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He set up practice inOmaha, Nebraska .He 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 theSixty-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 againstRobert Beecher Howell .He resumed the practice of law in Omaha. He was elected delegate at large to the
1924 Republican National Convention . He was also the manager of the Coolidge-Dawes automobile caravan fromPlymouth, Vermont toBellingham, 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.He was a member of the Congregationalist Church, as well as a
Freemason , an Elk, a Woodmen, and a member ofDelta Chi .External links
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13076 Albert W. Jefferis at Find-A-Grave]
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