T. Jeff Busby

Thomas Jefferson Busby (* July 26, 1884 in Short, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, † October 18, 1964 in Houston, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeff Busby attended the public schools of his home and then various colleges in Mississippi. Between 1903 and 1908 he was at times even worked as a teacher in Mississippi. In between, he set up his own training in 1905 at the George Robertson Christian College in Henderson ( Tennessee) continued. After studying law at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and his 1909 was admitted to the bar he began in Houston (Mississippi) to work in his new profession. Between 1912 and 1920, Busby District Attorney in Chickasaw County.

Busby was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1922 he was selected in the fourth district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Thomas U. Sisson on March 4, 1923. After five elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1935. In this time, the world economic crisis in 1933 and the repeal of the nationwide Prohibition Act fell. For the elections of 1934, Busby was not nominated by his party for another term.

After his time in Congress, Jeff Busby withdrew from politics. He again worked as a lawyer in Houston. He is also passed in 1964.

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