Jim Jeffords: Ahead of His Time

Jim Jeffords: Ahead of His Time

Former Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords, who died Monday at age 80, was in many ways ahead of his time. Mr. Jeffords, a Republican who shook up the Senate in 2001 by becoming an independent and caucusing with the Democrats, represented Vermont in the House for 14 years before being elected to the Senate in 1988. He was re-elected twice more as a Republican before giving Democrats control of the Senate for three years. Republicans considered him a turncoat and claimed his conversion was in exchange for receiving the chairmanship of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
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