Ed Jones (politician)

Ed Jones (1987)

Edward "Ed" Jones (born April 20, 1912 in Yorkville , Gibson County , Tennessee , †  December 11, 1999 in Dyer , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1969 and 1989 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ed Jones studied agriculture at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville until 1934 . Since November of that year he served in the administration of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. He also ran his own farm. From 1944 to 1949 and again between 1953 and 1969 he worked as an agricultural officer for the Illinois Central Railroad . In between he was from 1949 to 1953 as Commissioner of Agriculture Minister of Agriculture in his home state. From 1961 to 1969 he also headed the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation State Committee in Tennessee .

Politically, Jones was a member of the Democratic Party . After the death of MP Fats Everett , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the eighth seat of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on March 25, 1969. After nine re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1989 . There he temporarily represented the seventh district of his state between 1973 and 1983. Since 1983 he was again a representative of the eighth electoral district. During his time as a congressman, the Vietnam War ended, among other things . In 1974, the work of Congress was also shaped by the Watergate affair . In 1971 the 26th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in Congress.

In 1988 Ed Jones renounced another congressional candidacy. Until shortly before his death on December 11, 1999, he worked his farm near Yorkville.

Web links

• Ed Jones in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)