Albert W. Jefferis

Albert Webb Jefferis ( born December 7, 1868 Embreeville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, † September 14, 1942 in Omaha, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jefferis Albert attended the public schools in Roman Ville and then the State Normal School in West Chester. Then Jefferis worked for three years as a teacher before he studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Jura. After his 1893 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Omaha in this profession.

Jefferis was a member of the Republican Party. He was born in Nebraska on the board of the party and the both at the state level as well as in some districts. Between 1896 and 1898 he was a deputy district attorney. In 1908, Jefferis ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress. In 1910 he was chairman of the Congress of the Republican of Nebraska.

Jefferis in 1918 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was able to beat the incumbent Charles O. Lobeck. After he was re-elected in the elections of 1920, he was able to complete two terms in Congress, 1923 to March 3. In 1922 he opted not to run again. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

After the end of his time in Congress in Washington DC Jefferis again worked as a lawyer in Omaha. In 1924 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, was nominated to the President Calvin Coolidge for a further term. Jefferis supported the election campaign of Coolidge and organized a motorcade of the President of Vermont up in the state of Washington. In 1940, Albert Jefferis failed in the primaries of his party when he sought the nomination for the Senate elections. He died two years later in Omaha.