Jim Jeffries (politician)
American politician (1925-1997)
James Edmund Jeffries (June 1, 1925 – August 22, 1997) was a U.S. representative from Kansas from 1979 to 1983.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Jeffries attended the public schools. He graduated from Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1943.
He attended Michigan State University, Lansing, 1947. He served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1945. and was an investment counselor and corporate director from 1956 to 1979. He served as a delegate to the Kansas State Republican convention, 1978.
Jeffries was elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the Ninety-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983). He was a conservative. He introduced 14 bills during his tenure, the most prominent of which was a 1981 law which settled a long-standing controversy over a minor border dispute between Missouri and Kansas
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress and was a resident of Atchison, Kansas, until he retired to Tucson, Arizona, where he died.
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