James Edmund Jeffries

James Edmund Jeffries (June 1, 1925 – August 22, 1997) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas from 1979 to 1983.[1]

James Edmund Jeffries
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983
Preceded byMartha Keys
Succeeded byJim Slattery
Personal details
Born(1925-06-01)June 1, 1925
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
DiedAugust 22, 1997(1997-08-22) (aged 72)
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
ResidenceAtchison, Kansas
Alma materMichigan State University

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[2]

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.

Notes
  1. Biographical Sketch of James Edmund Jeffries, Kansas Historical Society
  2. https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/house-bill/4048?s=1&r=8 A bill granting the consent of Congress to the agreement between the States of Kansas and Missouri establishing their mutual boundary in the vicinity of the French Bottoms near St. Joseph, Missouri, and Elwood, Kansas
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References
  • United States Congress. "James Edmund Jeffries (id: J000074)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Martha Keys		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 2nd congressional district
1979 - 1983		 Succeeded by
Jim Slattery

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