George W. Jones

George Wallace Jones ( born April 12, 1804 in Vincennes, Indiana, † July 22, 1896 in Dubuque, Iowa ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. Senate.

Born in Indiana George Jones moved as a young man to Kentucky, where he graduated in 1825 at the Transylvania University, made before he studied law. After taking in the Bar Association, he settled in Sinsinawa in Michigan Territory, where he worked as a miner, and as owner of a shop. In 1832 he fought in the Black Hawk War against the Sauk and Fox Indians. In the meantime, Jones served as a judge in a local court, before he sat for his territory on 4 March 1835 to 3 March 1837 as a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States.

He then remained in Congress, where he is now as a delegate for another two years represented the Wisconsin Territory, which had been dissolved out of the Michigan Territory. A further splitting of the territories led to the formation of the Iowa Territory. After his admission as a State into the Union was George Jones one of the first two U.S. senators for Iowa; second representative in the Senate was Augustus C. Dodge. Jones remained there from 7 December 1848 to 3 March 1859 and was at this time in front of several committees. He applied a second time in 1858 for the nomination of his party, but failed and had to retire from the Senate.

Shortly thereafter, Jones was appointed envoy of the United States in New Granada, and remained in that post until 1861. Shortly after his return was U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward imprison him for alleged disloyalty because he was the letter contact with his friend Jefferson Davis, the President Confederate States had maintained. After 64 days, Jones was set to statement of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln released. He sat down to rest afterwards in Dubuque, where he died in 1896. The Jones County, Iowa was named after him.

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