Robert Franklin Jones

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Robert Franklin Jones

Robert Franklin Jones (born June 25, 1907 in Cairo , Allen County , Ohio , †  June 22, 1968 in Olney , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1947 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Jones attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1924 the Lima Central High School , also in Ohio. After a subsequent law degree at Ohio Northern University and his admission to the bar in 1929, he began to work in this profession in Lima . Between 1935 and 1939 he served as the Allen County attorney. Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

In the 1938 congressional election , Jones was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Walter H. Albaugh on January 3, 1939 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on September 2, 1947 . By 1941, the last of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

From 1947 to 1952, Robert Jones was a member of the Federal Communications Commission . After that he practiced as a lawyer again. He died in Olney on June 22, 1968 and was buried in Lima.

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SURNAME Jones, Robert Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1968
Place of death Olney , Maryland