Lux Jefferson

# Lux Jefferson Sr.

Lux Jefferson was a former Governor of Lavanda, and a Deputy Party Leader of the DMEA before dying in a plane crash on February 21st, 2022.

He is now buried in Galilei, Lavanda.

## History

### Early Life

Lux Jefferson was born December 15th, 1970 to two working class parents. His mother was an immigrant from Luxembourg, and his father was a native Lavandi. He worked throughout school and saved enough money to study abroad. He graduated from the University of Luxembourg with a master's degree in Political Science, after which he moved back to Lavanda.

He would quickly get involved in Lavanda politics, getting elected to their assembly and writing a new constitution for Lavanda. He would then leave the United Workers Front and join the Social Democratic Party instead. After the assembly was abolished, he would quit politics until he saw a chance to run for Governor of Lavanda and challenged incumbent Governor Sethyy for the seat. In the second round, he would win with over 70% and was elected Governor of Lavanda.

### 1st Governorship of Lavanda

Lux would lead the pro-independence movement and was a founding member of the Lavanda Independence Party along with Arjona and Svetlana Ferola. He would write a brand new constitution for Lavanda and passed several important pieces of legislation in the state. He would negotiate with Prime Minister Bert in order to gain more powers for the government of Lavanda, but negotiations broke down due to disagreements on election and tax policy. He would run for re-election and win in the first round before resigning due to opportunities abroad and left Adoria.

### Return to Lavanda and the ACT

Lux would return to Adoria soon after leaving and saw that his province of Lavanda had been filled to the brim with foreign libertarians, creating a party called the ACT. Lux feared they would run a candidate and defeat the incumbent Governor and his friend Arjona. Lux chose to join the ACT, convince them to run him for Governor as a member of their party, and defeated Arjona in the second round. After winning, he appointed Arjona as his Lt. Governor and then resigned, making Arjona governor again for a full 3 year term. Lux then ran for Public Advocate and became Lt. Governor after Arjona's Lt. resigned to pursue national politics.

### 2nd Governorship of Lavanda

Lux announced his campaign for Governor after Arjona announced he would not run for re-election. His opponent, and future husband Humbugg, was run by the ACT and was expected by most to win considering the ACT's influence in the region. Humbugg got exactly 50% to Lux's 31% enough to trigger a runoff election between the two of them. Running as an independent, Lux managed to gain the endorsement of every single party in the second round. He campaigned tirelessly, but after counting the people had voted, it seemed he would lose by just a few votes. Election results were announced, and all of Adoria held its breath. Lux and Humbugg had tied 50-50. A record 76 votes were cast. The election would then go to the National Assembly to tie break, in which Lux won in a landslide.

Lux's 2nd time as Governor was much more controversial than his first. He created the Lavanda Medal of Honor, passed a budget, and established official grammar rules, but his attempts to rename certain cities were disliked by the people of Lavanda.

After finishing his term, Lux would choose to retire from state politics. Although he would later run again for Governor, he chose not to campaign and more ran as a protest candidate.