Ross F. Jones

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Ross F. Jones (born August 25, 1900 in LeRoy , Kansas , † January 25, 1979 in Phoenix , Arizona ) was an American newspaper reporter, officer , lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

Ross F. Jones was born in Coffey County in 1900 . Nothing is known about his youth. Jones was a newspaper reporter specializing in public and government affairs. In the following years he turned to law . Jones visited the Kansas State College in Emporia ( Lyon County ). He then studied law at the University of Kansas City, now the University of Missouri – Kansas City . There he did his Bachelor of Laws and his Masters . In the following years he practiced as a lawyer.

He married Frances Engle in 1922. The couple shared interests in music, bridge, and gin . Jones became an associate attorney before joining a Kansas City law firm . In 1935 he moved with his family to Arizona and settled there in Tucson ( Pima County ) down. The reason for the move was her sick daughter. The family then moved to Phoenix, Maricopa County . There he started working for the law firm Fennemore, Craig, Allen & Bledsoe , where he worked for three years.

During World War II he headed the Military Law Department of the Officers' Training School in Miami ( Florida ). He was then transferred to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he taught military law. Six months later he was a liaison officer with the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) in Washington, DC His retirement took place on March 1, 1945. At that time he held the rank of major . He then returned to Phoenix, where he taught and practiced as a lawyer.

Jones served as the Attorney General of Arizona from 1953 to 1955 . In 1956 he stepped unsuccessfully for the US Senate Class III seat . against the incumbent Carl Hayden .

Jones then held a post of judge at the Superior Court of Maricopa County for ten years until his resignation in 1970, which was for health reasons.

He died on January 25, 1979 at the age of 78 after a long illness in the John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix. His body was then interred in the Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery . He was survived by his wife and daughter, Eva Lou Frances.

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SURNAME Jones, Ross F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American newspaper reporter, officer, lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH LeRoy , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1979
Place of death Phoenix , Arizona