Jimmy Jeffress is a retired school teacher and former politician in Arkansas. He served in the

Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House has 100 members elected from an equal number of constituencies across the state. Each distr ...

and

Arkansas Senate The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 83,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have ...

. He served in the Arkansas House in 1997 and 1999 and in the Arkansas Senate from 2001 to 2009. During his time in congress, he was one of the only Democrats to be a member of the right-wing lobbying group American Legislative Exchange Council (A.L.E.C.). The Arkansas Senate has a collection of photographs of him. The Center for Arkansas History and Culture has a collection of his papers.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jeffress, Jimmy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Arkansas state senators American schoolteachers Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives 20th-century Arkansas politicians 21st-century members of the Arkansas General Assembly