Burr W. Jones

Burr W. Jones (* March 9, 1846 in Evansville, Rock County, Wisconsin, † January 7, 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Burr Jones attended the public schools of his home and then taught himself for some years as a teacher. Then he studied until 1870 at the University of Wisconsin literature. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1871 admitted to the bar he began in Portage to work in his new profession. In 1872 he moved his residence and his law firm to Madison. In the years 1872 and 1874, he was district attorney in the local Dane County.

Politically, Jones was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Cochrane Hazelton on March 4, 1883. Since he Republican Robert M. La Follette was defeated in the elections of 1884, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885.

Between 1885 and 1915, Burr Jones taught at the University of Wisconsin law. In 1892 he was chairman of the regional Democratic Party of Wisconsin day and 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In the years 1897 and 1898, Jones was a member and Chairman of the Tax Commission of the State of Wisconsin. From 1920 to 1926 he served as judge of the supreme court of his state. He then worked again as a lawyer. Burr Jones died on January 7, 1935 in Madison.