Thomas Laurens Jones

Thomas Laurens Jones ( born January 22, 1819 in White Oak, Rutherford County, North Carolina, † June 20, 1887 in Newport, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1871, and again from 1875 to 1877, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his childhood came with his parents to Thomas Jones in Spartanburg, South Carolina. There he attended private schools. Subsequently, he studied until 1840 at the Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1846 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Spartanburg. Previously, he had toured Europe for two years as a tourist. In 1847 he moved his residence and his law firm in New York City. Since 1849 he has been resident in Newport ( Kentucky), where he also worked as a lawyer

In his new home, Jones began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. From 1853 to 1855 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Although he was an opponent of secession, Jones was imprisoned during the Civil War as an alleged sympathizer of the South in 1862 for three months. In the congressional elections of 1866 he was in the sixth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1867. After a re-election in 1868 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1871 two legislative sessions. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was marked by tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

1870 Jones waived on a bid again. Four years later he was again elected to Congress. There he took over from the March 4, 1875 William Arthur Evans. Until March 3, 1877, he was thus able to spend another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. During this time he was chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals. In the following elections in 1876, Thomas Jones did not occur to. He retired from politics, again worked as a lawyer and died on June 20, 1887 in Newport.