James A. Jeffries (October 1836 – January 18, 1910) was the 20th

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, with service from 1888 to 1892 under

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. Jeffries was allied with the Nicholls faction of the Louisiana

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. While he was lieutenant governor, he also served as a member of the Democratic National Committee. Jeffries was born in

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but in 1859 was living in Washington County in southeast

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, where he married the former Annie Munsen (or Munson). He is listed in the 1860 census for

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, Texas, as a lawyer and was the trustee/guardian for Annie's two siblings. Annie J. Jeffries, wife of James Jeffries, died in Cameron in Milam County on 26 May 1861. Jeffries then served as a

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in Company F of the 8th TX Infantry

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during the

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. He became a member of the

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Leroy Stafford Camp #3 of the United Confederate Veterans. On July 27, 1865, in

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, he wed Mary E (or Lillie) Meade, daughter of Stephen Meade of the nearby Avoca Plantation.https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4CY-THZ Jeffries is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where he lived in his later years.

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