Jim Jeffords, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jim Jeffords

American politician

Date of Birth: 11-May-1934

Place of Birth: Rutland, Vermont, United States

Date of Death: 18-Aug-2014

Profession: lawyer, politician, military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jim Jeffords

  • James Merrill Jeffords (May 11, 1934 – August 18, 2014) was an American politician who served as a U.S.
  • Senator from Vermont.
  • Sworn into the Senate in 1989, he served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent and began caucusing with the Democrats.
  • Jeffords retired from the Senate in 2007.
  • Prior to serving in the Senate, he served as the U.S.
  • Representative for Vermont's at-large congressional district from 1975 to 1989. The son of Olin M.
  • Jeffords, who served as Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, James Jeffords was born in Rutland, Vermont.
  • He graduated from Yale University, served for three years in the United States Navy, and then attended Harvard Law School, from which he received his degree in 1962.
  • Jeffords practiced law in southern Vermont and became a resident of Shrewsbury, where he was active in local politics and government as a Republican, including serving as chairman of the town's Republican committee.
  • He served one term in the Vermont Senate (1967-1969), and two as Attorney General of Vermont (1969-1973).
  • He lost the 1972 Republican primary for Governor of Vermont, but won the election for Vermont's lone seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1974.
  • He served in the House from 1975 to 1989; in 1988 he was the successful Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat held by the retiring Robert Stafford. Jeffords served in the Senate from 1989 until 2007, winning reelection in 1994 and 2000.
  • In 2001, he made national headlines when he left the Republican Party to become an independent, and began to caucus with the Senate's Democrats.
  • His switch changed control of the Senate from Republican to Democratic, the first time a switch had ever changed party control.
  • During his Senate career, Jeffords served as chairman of the Public Works and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees. In 2005, Jeffords announced that he would not run for reelection in 2006, and would retire at the end of his term.
  • He was succeeded by Bernie Sanders.
  • Jeffords retired to Shrewsbury in 2007.
  • After the death of his wife, he moved to the Washington, DC area to live closer to his children.
  • He died in 2014 from complications associated with Alzheimer's disease, and was buried in Shrewsbury.

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