Mary T. Jeffries

For 12 years,[1] she served as President of the Alabama Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

[2] From 1927 to 1928, she was an appointive member of the Alabama State Board of Education under Governor, Bibb Graves.

[2] Jeffries joined the WCTU in 1887, and since that time has been an active worker in Alabama, serving in many official positions in the local and State organizations.

During the time she was not in office in the State Union, she served as president of the Birmingham central organization, and took the lead in all the Prohibition campaigns in that city.

[2] Mary T. Jeffries died in Birmingham on September 3, 1930; burial was in that city's Oak Hill Cemetery.