Robert Emmett Jones Junior

Robert Jones (left) with Wernher von Braun

Robert Emmett Jones junior (born June 21, 1912 in Scottsboro , Jackson County , Alabama , † June 4, 1997 in Florence , Alabama) was an American politician and represented the state of Alabama in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Emmett Jones, Jr. was born on June 21, 1912 in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, where he attended public school. He graduated from the Law Department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on January 7, 1937. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and opened a practice in Scottsboro, Alabama. He was elected Judge of the Jackson County Court in July 1940 and re-elected in May 1945. He held the office of judge until October 1946. He then went to the United States Navy , where he served as a gunnery officer in both theaters of war in the Atlantic and Pacific between December 1943 and February 1946.

After the war, on January 28, 1947, he was elected a Democrat in an extraordinary election to the eightieth Congress to fill the vacant space left by the resignation of John J. Sparkman . He was then re-elected to Congress fourteen more times. He served in Congress between January 28, 1947 and January 3, 1977. During that time, he was Chairman of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation (84th Congress). In 1976, Jones decided not to run for the ninety-fifth Congress.

Robert Emmett Jones, Jr. died on June 4, 1997.

Web links

• Biography from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress