T. Jeff Busby

T. Jeff Busby

Thomas Jefferson Busby (born July 26, 1884 in Short , Tishomingo County , Mississippi , † October 18, 1964 in Houston , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jeff Busby attended his homeland public schools and then various colleges in Mississippi. Between 1903 and 1908 he himself worked as a teacher in Mississippi at times. In between he continued his own education at the George Robertson Christian College in Henderson ( Tennessee ) until 1905 . After studying law at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and his admission to the bar in 1909, he began to work in his new profession in Houston, Mississippi. Between 1912 and 1920, Busby was a district attorney in Chickasaw County .

Busby was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1922 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth district of his state , where he succeeded Thomas U. Sisson on March 4, 1923 . After five re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the world economic crisis fell and in 1933 the repeal of the nationwide prohibition law . For the 1934 election, Busby was not nominated for another term by his party.

After his time in Congress, Jeff Busby retired from politics. He went back to work as a lawyer in Houston. He died there in 1964.

Web links

• T. Jeff Busby in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• T. Jeff Busby in the database of Find a Grave (English)