William M. Jeffers

(1876-1953) born in North Platte, lived in Omaha. Executive, government official, an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad his entire adult life, he served as its president from 1937 to 1946, and was rubber director of U.S. War Production Board for one year, succeeding in organizing the synthetic rubber industry, appeared on cover of Time, July 30, 1945. Consult Famous Leaders of Industry, Fifth Series (L. C. Page, 1945) 167-178 and New York Times obituary, March 7, 1953, p. 15 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 5 (1977) 365-366 and North Platte Telegraph, July 21, 2002, pp. A-1, A-2.

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