Albert W. Jefferis

Albert W. Jefferis.

Albert Webb Jefferis (December 7, 1868 – September 14, 1942) was a Nebraska Republican 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.

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 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.

He 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.

He was a member of the Congregationalist Church, as well as a Freemason, an Elk, a Woodmen, and a member of Delta Chi.

References

  1. "Jefferis, Albert Webb". The Political Graveyard. Archived from the original on February 6, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2006.
  2. "Jefferis, Albert Webb". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved February 1, 2006.
  • This article incorporates facts obtained from: Lawrence Kestenbaum, The Political Graveyard
  •  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Charles O. Lobeck (D)		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district
March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923		 Succeeded by
Willis G. Sears (R)


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