Background
Keffer was born in San Angelo in Tom Green County in West Texas.
Keffer was born in San Angelo in Tom Green County in West Texas.
Texas Technical University.
A lifelong Republican, Keffer is a former Eastland County Grand Old Party chairman. A graduate of Texas Technical University in Lubbock, Keffer is president of EBAA Iron Sales in Eastland. He was initially elected to the House in 1996.
Keffer previously served as chairman of the House Ways and Means and Economic Development Committee.
In 2011, Texas Monthly magazine named Keffer one of the "Top Ten Legislators" in the state. In 2010, he co-founded the "Debt Busters Program" for the Texas Republican Party, an endeavor that brought solvency to party coffers under the administration of Grand Old Party state chairman Steve Munisteri.
He was named a "Lone Star Conservative Leader" because of his pro-business voting record. Keffer has served as a deacon and Sunday school teacher in the First Baptist Church of Eastland, past president of the Eastland Little League and is active with economic development through his local Chamber of Commerce.
Keffer was initially elected to the Texas House in 1996, when he narrowly unseated the Democratic incument John R. Cook, 21,922 (506 percent) to 21,409 (494 percent).
Keffer was reelected without opposition to a ninth House term in the general election held on November 6, 2012.
As of 2013, he was the chairman of the House Committee on Energy Resources and a member of the Natural Resources and Redistricting committees. Keffer"s younger brother, William R. "Bill" Keffer, a Dallas lawyer who was born in Upton County in 1958, was from 2003 to 2007 a member of the Texas House from District 107 in the Lake Highlands section of northern Dallas County.