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James Merrill Jeffords (May 11, 1934 – August 18, 2014) was an American lawyer and 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.
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- 1956–1959 (active), 1959–1990 (reserve)
Aug 19, 2014 · Jim Jeffords, the former senator from Vermont who single-handedly redrew the national political map in 2001 when, after a quarter-century as a moderate Republican lawmaker, he declared himself an ...
Aug 18, 2014 · Jim Jeffords, who shifted the balance of power in the Senate when he bolted from the Republican Party in 2001, died on Monday. The former Vermont lawmaker had been in declining health and died at ...
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Aug 18, 2014 · August 18, 2014 at 1:25 p.m. EDT. James M. Jeffords is shown in his Capitol Hill office in April 2001 prior to vote opposing Bush White House tax cut legislation. (Photo by Ray Lustig, The ...
Aug 18, 2014 · Former Senator Jim Jeffords Dead At 80. In 2001, Jim Jeffords separated from the Republican party, taking away the GOP majority in the Senate. Former Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords has died. A lifelong moderate Republican, Jeffords earned national fame in May 2001 when he abandoned his party and became an independent, single-handedly shifting the ...
Aug 18, 2014 · Politics Aug 18, 2014 12:55 PM EDT. MONTPELIER, Vt. — Former Vermont U.S. Sen. James Jeffords, who in 2001 tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent ...
Aug 19, 2014 · WASHINGTON — — Although he made his career in politics, Jim Jeffords was a modest man who disliked cameras and speeches. In May 2001, however, the three-term senator from Vermont found ...
