Albert Edward Jeffcoat

Background

Albert Jeffcoat was born in New York, to Albert C. and May E. Jeffcoat.

Education

Jeffcoat attended Williams College, and got his Bachelor of Arts degree. After that, he attended the University of Michigan, where he got his Master of Arts degree.

Career

A. E. Jeffcoat turned to full-time writing in the Northwest after a career as a foreign correspondent, corporate executive, and communications counselor. He became a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal while in his twenties, based in London and then as bureau chief in Paris, writing frontpage feature articles and editorial page features on European political and social issues.

Later, he held executive positions at IBM and Ford Motor Company, and was the president of his own firm, Jeffcoat Schoen & Morrell, counseling major corporations and nonprofit organizations, including the New York City bar association, the Carnegie Corporation and its commissions, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Japan Society.

He spent six years researching and writing Spirited Americans, and he is presently at work on a new book that develops the most important themes of that book in a philosophical orientation.

Achievements

• Albert Jeffcoat is known as the honorary founding chairman of a nonprofit performing arts organization, the Manhattan Theater Club, a leading center for the development of new work for theater.

Works

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  • Spirited Americans: A Commentary on America's Optimists 2000

Membership

Jeffcoat is a member of the Book Publishers Northwest, Williams Club.

Interests

• Reading, travel in Europe

• Sport & Clubs

  hiking, tennis, swimming

Connections

Jeffcoat was married to Jeanne Molynek but their marriage ended in 1964. In 1970, he married Janice Bezich. Jeffcoat had six children: Lindsey Jeffcoat Jarris, Thomas, Cathy, Peter, John, Ross.

Father:

Albert C. Jeffcoat

Mother:

May E. Jeffcoat

ex-wife:

Jeanne Molynek

Wife:

Janice Bezich

Daughter:

Lindsey Jeffcoat Jarris

Son:

Thomas Jeffcoat

Daughter:

Cathy Jeffcoat

Son:

Peter Jeffcoat

Son:

John Jeffcoat

Son:

Ross Jeffcoat