Alexander H. Jones

Alexander Hamilton Jones (born July 21, 1822 in Buncombe County , North Carolina , †  January 29, 1901 in Long Beach , California ) was an American politician . Between 1868 and 1871 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After attending school, Alexander Jones went into business. During the Civil War , he joined the Union Army in 1863 , ruling out the majority of his compatriots in North Carolina. In 1864 he was taken prisoner of war, from which he was able to escape. He remained a Union soldier until the end of the war. After the war he returned to North Carolina, where he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In 1865, Jones was a delegate to a meeting to revise the North Carolina Constitution. At that time he was also elected to the US House of Representatives, where he was refused a seat because his state had not yet been re-accepted into the Union. After the resumption of North Carolina, Jones was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of the state , where he took up his new mandate on July 6, 1868. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1871 . In 1870 he was defeated by the Democrat James C. Harper .

Alexander Jones stayed in the federal capital Washington until 1876. He then moved to Maryland , where he lived until 1884. He then settled in Asheville (North Carolina). Via Oklahoma , where he had meanwhile moved, he came to California in 1897, where he spent his old age. He died in Long Beach on January 29, 1901.

Web links

• Alexander H. Jones in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Alexander H. Jones in the database of Find a Grave (English)