Jeffery Cohelan

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Jeffery Cohelan (June 24, 1914 - February 15, 1999) was a United States Representative from California. He was born in San Francisco, California. He attended the public schools and San Mateo Junior College. He received the A.B. from University of California School of Economics. He was a Fulbright research scholar at Leeds and Oxford Universities in England in 1953 and 1954. He was the secretary-treasurer of the Milk Drivers and Dairy Employees, Local 302, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties from 1942 until elected to Congress. He was a consultant to the University of California Institute of Industrial Relations.

Cohelan was a member of Berkeley Welfare Commission 1949-1953, and the Berkeley City Council 1955-1958. He also served as a member of San Francisco Council on Foreign Relations. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959 - January 3, 1971). He was unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress. He later served as the executive director of the Group Health Association of America. He lived as a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death there on February 15, 1999.

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