Daniel T. Jones

Daniel Terryll Jones ( born August 17, 1800 in Hebron, Connecticut, † March 29, 1861 in Baldwinsville, New York) was an American physician and politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Terryll Jones received a liberal education. He graduated in 1826 at the medical faculty of Yale College and then began in Amboy Oswego County to practice. In 1841 he moved to Baldwinsville. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1850 for the 32nd Congress Jones was in the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel God on March 4, 1851. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up a re-election bid in 1854, he retired after March 3, 1855 from the Congress. In 1858 he had presided over the Republican State Convention in Syracuse. Jones went back to his work by a doctor. He died about two weeks before the outbreak of the civil war in Baldwinsville and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery.