Wesley Livsey Jones

Wesley Livsey Jones (* October 9, 1863 in Bethany, Illinois, † November 19, 1932 in Seattle, Washington) was an American politician who represented the State of Washington in both chambers of Congress.

Youth and Education

About the family of Wesley Livsey Jones is only known that his father Wesley Jones came a few days before Jones ' birth as a soldier in the Civil War died. His mother later remarried Phoebe McKay.

Wesley Jones, born and raised on a farm in Moultrie County, there attended the compulsory school and made in 1885 graduated from the Southern Illinois College in Enfield. One of his classmates was William Edgar Borah, 1907-1940 Senator from Idaho. After a one-year Private Law Studies Jones was admitted to the Bar in 1886 and shortly after his appointment in Decatur, Illinois. After three years, Jones had worked in Illinois, he moved in 1889 to Yakima, Washington, where he was also able to take in his profession foot.

Political career

The political career of Republican Jones began in 1898, when he was elected for Washington House of Representatives of the United States. Jones ' term of office began on March 4, 1899 and ended after four successful elections on March 3, 1909. Early as 1908, he was elected Senator of the United States, so he took office just one day after his resignation from Congress on 4 March 1909 on.

Jones was more than two decades senator and worked during his tenure in numerous boards and committees.

Death

In the last years of his tenure, Jones was often sick. Even the Republicans made ​​the world economic crisis, but also the Prohibition hard to create. Beginning of November 1932 Jones lost the election against another Republican, Homer Bone, which also meant a severe blow to him. Only ten days after the election Jones died at the age of 69 years in Seattle. The time to the swearing-in of Senator Bone officiated Elijah S. Grammer.

He left behind his wife Minda, with whom he had been married since 1885, and their two children.