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JEFFERIS, Albert Webb, a Representative from Nebraska; born near Embreeville, Chester
County, Pa., December 7, 1868; attended the public schools in Romansville, Pa.,
and the State normal school at West Chester; taught school in West Bradford
Township three years; was graduated from the law department of the University
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Omaha, Nebr.; member of various Republican State and
county committees; assistant county attorney 1896-1898; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; chairman of the Republican
State convention in 1910; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and
Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate
for election to the United States Senate in 1922; resumed the practice of law;
was elected delegate at large to the Republican National Convention in 1924;
was manager of the Coolidge-Dawes automobile caravan from Plymouth, Vt., to
Bellingham, Wash.; resumed the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr.; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination as United States Senator in 1940; died at Omaha,
Nebr., on September 14, 1942; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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