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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeGeorge Washington JONES
(1806-1884)
JONES, George Washington,
a Representative from Tennessee; born in King and Queen County,
Va., March 15, 1806; moved to Tennessee with his parents, who
settled in Fayetteville; received a common-school and academical
education; apprenticed to the saddler’s trade; justice of the
peace 1832-1835; member of the State house of representatives
1835-1839; served in the State senate 1839-1841; clerk of Lincoln
County Court 1840-1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth
and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3,
1859); chairman, Committee on Rules (Thirty-first and Thirty-second
Congresses), Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-fifth Congress);
delegate to the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C.,
in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war, but did
not attend; elected from Tennessee a Member of the House of
Representatives in the First Confederate Congress and served from
February 18, 1862, to February 18, 1864; was not a candidate for
reelection; delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1870; died in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., November 14,
1884; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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