Frank Jones (politician)

Frank Jones ( born September 15, 1832 in Barrington, Strafford County, New Hampshire; † 2 October 1902 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Jones attended the public schools of his home. In 1849 he moved to Portsmouth in Rockingham County, where he became a successful businessman. His most famous company was a brewery, which should be one of the biggest ale breweries in the United States in the 1870s. Jones also worked in the hotel industry and in banking. His business he operated mainly in Portsmouth and Boston.

Jones became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1868 and 1869 he was mayor of Portsmouth. In 1874, he was elected in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William B. Small of the Republican Party on March 4, 1875. After a re-election in 1876 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. In 1878 he gave up another candidacy. During this time the Reconstruction ended in the former states of the Confederacy.

In 1880, Jones ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of New Hampshire: He was defeated by Republican Charles Henry Bell. In the following years he remained politically active. He advocated for the expansion of the port of Portsmouth. He also supported 1884 Grover Cleveland in the presidential elections. In 1885 he declined the offer to become Secretary of the Navy, from. In the 1890s, Jones sold his brewery to British investors. For this, he went into the railway business and the insurance industry.

In 1896, Jones moved to disagreements with William Jennings Bryan on monetary matters to the Republican Party. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in June 1900; in the presidential elections of the same year he was one of the Republican electors who voted for President William McKinley in his second term. Frank Jones died on October 2, 1902 in Portsmouth.