John William Jones

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John William Jones (born April 14, 1806 in Rockville , Maryland , †  April 27, 1871 in Decatur , Georgia ) was an American politician . Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1810, John William Jones came to Kentucky with his parents , where the family settled near Carlisle . There he attended public schools and Carlisle Seminary . After a subsequent medical degree and his license as a doctor, he began to work in his new profession in Washington ( Tennessee ) in 1826 . He later moved to Monroe , Georgia and then to Campbellton , where he also practiced as a doctor. In the following years he improved his medical training with a degree at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1836 he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia . From 1841 he was based in Griffin .

In addition to his medical work, Jones also began a political career. In 1837 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives to the Whig Party . In the congressional election of 1846 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded George W. Towns on March 4, 1847 . Since he refused to run again in 1848, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1849 . This was determined by the events of the Mexican-American War .

After serving in the US House of Representatives, Jones returned to work as a lawyer. In 1850 he became a curator of Oak Bowery Female College . A year later he moved to Auburn , Alabama . There he co-founded the Auburn Masonic Female College . In 1856 he moved to Atlanta , where he taught medicine between 1856 and 1862 at what is now Emory University , which was then called Atlanta Medical College . During the Civil War he was a military doctor in the army of the Confederate States . He then continued teaching in Atlanta until 1870. He then moved to Decatur, where he died in April 1871.

Web links

  • John William Jones in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jones, John William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockville , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1871
Place of death Decatur , Georgia