Jeffress, E. B. (Edwin Bedford), 1887-1961

Edwin Bedford Jeffress, owner of the "Greensboro Daily News"; mayor of Greensboro, N.C., from 1925 to 1929; and member of the North Carolina General Assembly from Guilford County in 1931. In May 1931, he was appointed chair of the State Highway Commission by Governor O. Max Gardner. When the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission was formed in 1933, Jeffress was named chair by Governor John C. B. Ehringhaus. His tenure was cut short, however, by an illness that rendered him a semi-invalid for the rest of his life, much of which he spent at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, writing a history of North Carolina.

From the description of E. B. Jeffress papers, 1860-1955. WorldCat record id: 28359486

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