Jeffery Allen Gifford (August 4, 1946 – June 12, 2022) was an American politician in the state of

Maine Maine ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and ...

. Gifford served as a Republican member of the

Maine House of Representatives The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via ...

, representing the House District 12 from 2006 until 2014. He served on the House Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee (third-term), and then House District 142 from 2020 until his death on June 12, 2022. He was first elected in 2006, was re-elected in 2008, 2010 and 2012. He was elected again in 2020 in what was by this time House District 142. He was running for reelection in the redrawn and renumbered House District 28 at the time of his death. Gifford was married to his wife Irene Gifford and had three children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He worked in the

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and was a member of th
Pulp & Paperworkers Resource Council
which lobbies for legislation and policies that effect jobs in this industry. He coached

Pop Warner Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American college football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game. Included among his inn ...

football for twenty-five years and lived in

Lincoln, Maine Lincoln is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The town's population was 4,853 at the 2020 United States Census. A statue honoring Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon was installed in Lincoln, in 2021. The bronze sculpture fa ...

. Gifford died from cancer on June 12, 2022, at the age of 75.

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Maine House of Representatives - Representative Jeffery A. Gifford
official government website

legislative web site *''Follow the Money'' - Jeffery Gifford
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campaign contributions {{DEFAULTSORT:Gifford, Jeffery 1946 births 2022 deaths Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives People from Lincoln, Maine 21st-century members of the Maine Legislature