George Washington Jones (Texas politician)

George Washington Jones ( born September 5, 1828 Marion County, Alabama, † July 11, 1903 in Bastrop, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth, George Jones moved with his parents first to Tennessee and then to Bastrop in Texas. He attended the public schools of his respective home. After a subsequent law degree in 1851 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Bastrop in this profession. In 1856, he served as district attorney. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Confederacy. He rose to become colonel of infantry from simple soldiers. In 1866 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. In the years 1866 and 1867 Jones served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas. For this office he was due to political differences of the military commander, General Philip Sheridan, dismissed.

Politically, Jones joined the Greenback Party. In the congressional elections of 1878 he was in the fifth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of De Witt Clinton Giddings on March 4, 1879. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. In 1872 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Jones practiced as a lawyer again. He died on July 11, 1903 in Bastrop.