George Washington Jones (politician, 1828)

George Washington Jones

George Washington Jones (born September 5, 1828 in Marion County , Alabama , †  July 11, 1903 in Bastrop , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In his youth, George Jones and his parents moved first to Tennessee and then to Bastrop, Texas. He attended the public schools in his respective homeland. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1851, he began to work in this profession in Bastrop. In 1856 he served as the district attorney. During the Civil War he served in the Confederation Army . He rose from a simple soldier to a colonel in the infantry. In 1866 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution. Jones served as lieutenant governor of Texas in 1866 and 1867 . From this position he was dismissed by the military commander, General Philip Sheridan , because of political differences .

Politically, Jones joined the Greenback Party . In the congressional election of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Texas , where he succeeded De Witt Clinton Giddings on March 4, 1879 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1883 . In 1872 he renounced another candidacy.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, George Jones practiced as a lawyer again. He died on July 11, 1903 in Bastrop.

Web links

• George Washington Jones in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• George Washington Jones in the database of Find a Grave (English)