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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaJames JONES
(1772-1848)
JONES, James, a
Representative from Virginia; born in Nottoway Parish, Amelia (now
Nottoway) County, Va., on December 11, 1772; graduated from
Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in 1791, and the Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; was graduated in medicine from
the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1796; returned to Amelia
County, where he practiced medicine and also engaged in
agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of delegates
1804-1809; privy councilor of Virginia from 1809 to 1811, when he
resigned; served in the War of 1812 as director general of hospital
and medical stores; member of the State house of delegates in 1818;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifteenth Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peterson Goodwin; elected
as a Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March
4, 1819-March 3, 1823); again a member of the State house of
delegates 1827-1829; resumed agricultural pursuits; died at his
home, “Mountain Hall,” near Nottoway, Nottoway County,
Va., April 25, 1848; interment in the family burying ground on his
estate.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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