Charles R. Jonas

Charles R. Jonas (1965)

Charles Raper Jonas (born December 9, 1904 in Lincoln , Lincoln County , North Carolina , † September 28, 1988 in Lincoln, North Carolina) was an American politician . He represented the state of North Carolina as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Jonas was the son of Congressman Charles A. Jonas (1876–1955). He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1921 . He then made his Bachelor of Arts in 1925 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 1928 his Bachelor of Laws in the legal department of the same university. He was admitted to the bar in 1927 and then opened a practice in Lincolnnton in 1928.

He was then the US Assistant Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina between 1931 and 1933. He was also since 1927 a member of the North Carolina National Guard . It was not until September 21, 1940 that he joined the United States Army with the rank of captain and retired on April 20, 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Judge Advocate General's Corps . He then served as President of the North Carolina Bar Association from 1946 to 1947. He was then a member of the Law Review Committee from 1948 to 1950. He then returned to his practice as a lawyer.

Jonas was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1952 . He was then elected as a Republican in the 83rd and nine subsequent Congresses. His term of office ran from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1973. In 1972, he decided not to run for the 93rd Congress. He then returned to Lincoln and stayed there until his death on September 28, 1988.

During his tenure in Congress in 1956, he refused to sign the Southern Manifesto , which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

Web links

• Charles R. Jonas in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)