Society of Senates Past
Roster

JOHN D. JEFFERIES
Democrat, District 44, Baltimore City

Born in Jersey City, NJ, June 19, 1928.  Attended Dunbar High School, Baltimore.  Attended University of Baltimore (motion & time study); International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers Leadership Schools I and II, Rutgers University; Community College of Baltimore (labor relations & arbitration); Essex Community College (semantics & commmunications); University of Pennsylvania, M.N.P.L. (political science); University of Wisconsin (collective bargaining); George Meany Institute (preparation & preservation of arbitration).  Married; four children.

General Assembly:
Member, House of Delegates, 1988-94.  Member, Environmental Matters Committee.  Member, Tort and Insurance Reform Oversight Committee, 1993.  Chair, Maryland Legislative Black Caucus, 1992-93.
Member of Senate, 1998-99.  Member, Judicial Proceedings Committee, 1998-99.

Private Career and Other Public Service:
Served in U.S. Marine Corps, World War II.  Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, 1994-.  Directing Business Representative, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO.  Member, Democratic State Central Committee, 1975-88; Delegate, Metropolitan Baltimore Council, AFL-CIO Unions, 1968- (Recording Secretary, 1971-80; Financial Secretary-Treasurer, 1980-94); Area Vice-President, Maryland State and District of Columbia AFL-CIO, 1973-94; President, Maryland-District of Columbia State Council of Machinists, 1984- (Executive Vice-President 1973-84); Member, Industrial Relations Research Association; Member, Liquor Board, Baltimore City, 1983-87; Citizens Advisory Board for Vocational Education, Baltimore City Public Schools.  Thirty-third degree Mason; Shriner; Member, St. John's A.M.E. Church, Baltimore.

Compiled March 16, 2000 from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives.