Jay Le Fevre

Jay Le Fevre ( born September 6, 1893 in New Paltz, New York, † April 26, 1970 in Kingston, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1951 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jay Le Fevre graduated from the Lawrenceville Preparatory School in Lawrenceville (New Jersey) and attended Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). During the First World War he served in the Reserve Officers Training Corps in 1918 the field artillery at Camp Taylor ( Arkansas), where he held the rank of Second Lieutenant. Between 1916 and 1946 he went to New Paltz with his father the coal, tree wood, fodder and fuel oil business after. He also worked in banking. He was a trustee in the Village of New Paltz. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He took in 1942 and 1946 as a delegate to the Republican State Convention in part. Between 1930 and 1946 he was a Republican Committeeman from New Paltz.

In the congressional elections of 1942, for the 78th Congress Le Fevre was in the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lewis K. Rockefeller on January 4, 1943. In 1944 he stood as a candidate in the 30th electoral district of New York for the 79th Congress. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1945, the successor of Bernard W. Kearney. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1950, he retired after January 3, 1951 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his commercial transactions. Between 1951 and 1955 he was a member of the New York State Bridge Authority. He died on 26 April 1970 in Kingston. His body was then buried in the Lloyd Cemetery, Highland.