Roland Jones

Roland Jones (born November 18, 1813 in Salisbury , Rowan County , North Carolina , †  February 5, 1869 in Shreveport , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Roland Jones attended private schools in his home country. Between 1830 and 1835 he worked as a teacher in Wilkesboro . After a subsequent law degree at Cambridge Law School in Massachusetts and his admission as a lawyer in 1838, he began to work in Brandon , Mississippi in his new profession. There he published the Brandon Republican newspaper between 1838 and 1840. In 1840 he moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he continued to practice law.

Jones was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1844 and 1848 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives . In 1851 and 1852 he was a district judge in Caddo Parish . In the congressional election of 1852 Jones was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded John Moore ( Whig Party ) on March 4, 1853 . Since he refused to run again in 1854 , he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1855 . This was determined by the discussions leading up to the civil war . It was primarily about the question of slavery .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Roland Jones worked as a lawyer again. Between 1860 and 1868 he was again district judge. He died in Shreveport on February 5, 1869.

Web links

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

• Roland Jones in the database of Find a Grave (English)