Seaborn Jones

Seaborn Jones (born February 1, 1788 in Augusta , Georgia , †  March 18, 1864 in Columbus , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1847 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

Seaborn Jones first attended Princeton College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1808, he began to work in Milledgeville in his new profession. In 1817 he became a prosecutor for the Ocmulgee district. In 1823 he became Solicitor General of the State of Georgia. In the 1820s, he was one of the negotiators trying to settle riots in the Creek Indian area . In 1827 Jones moved to Columbus.

Politically, he joined the later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1832 Jones was elected to the newly created ninth mandate of Georgia in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took his seat on March 4, 1833. Until March 3, 1835, he could initially only complete one legislative period in Congress . This was determined by the discussions about President Jackson's policies. In those years it was mainly about the banking policy of the president.

In the congressional election of 1844 Jones was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the second constituency of Georgia, where he succeeded William Henry Stiles on March 4, 1845 . Until March 3, 1847 he was able to spend another legislative period in Congress, which was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War . After his final exit from Congress, Seaborn Jones withdrew from politics. He died in Columbus on March 18, 1864.

Web links

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

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