Elza Jeffords

Elza Jeffords (* May 23, 1826 in Ironton, Ohio; † March 19, 1885 in Vicksburg, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elza Jeffords attended the public schools in Portsmouth (Ohio ). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1847 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in this city. During the Civil War Jeffords served between June 1862 and December 1863 at the quartermaster of the Army of the Tennessee, a major unit of the Union Army. After the war he was 1868-1869 appeal judges in Mississippi.

Politically Elza Jeffords was a member of the Republican Party. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention to the President Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for another term. 1882 Jeffords in the second district of Mississippi was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he Van H. Manning replaced on March 4, 1883. Since he Democrat James B. Morgan was defeated in the elections of 1884, Jeffords was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885.

Elza Jeffords died two weeks after the end of his time in Congress in Vicksburg, where he was also buried.