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Albert Webb Jefferis (December 7, 1868 – September 14, 1942) was an American Republican Party politician. Born near
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, he attended public schools in Romansville, Pennsylvania and the West Chester Normal School for three years. He graduated from the law department of the
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, in 1893 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He set up practice in
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. Jefferis was also the head football coach at Doane College—now known as
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—in
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, for one season, in 1893. Jefferis was a member of various Republican State and county committees. He was assistant county attorney for
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, from 1896 to 1898. He ran in 1908 for the Sixty-first United States Congress and lost. He then became chairman of the Republican State convention in 1910. He succeeded in being elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses serving from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1923. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 1922 against Robert Beecher Howell. Jefferis resumed the practice of law in Omaha. He was elected a delegate at large to the
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. He was also the manager of the Coolidge-
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. He resumed his practice of law in Omaha, trying once more unsuccessfully candidate for United States Senator in 1940. He failed to get the nomination. He died at Omaha, Nebraska, on September 14, 1942, and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha. Jefferis was a member of the Congregationalist Church, as well as a
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, a Woodmen, and a member of
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jefferis, Albert Webb 1868 births 1942 deaths Doane Tigers football coaches Michigan Wolverines football players Nebraska lawyers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska West Chester University alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni American Congregationalists 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives