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Oil on canvas, James B. Sword, 1911, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
JONES, John Winston, a Representative from Virginia; born near Amelia Court House, Amelia
County, Va., November 22, 1791; attended private schools; was graduated from
the law department of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in
1813; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Chesterfield County, Va.; prosecuting attorney for the fifth Virginia circuit
in 1818; member of the State constitutional convention in 1829 and 1830;
elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a
Democrat to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1845);
chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Twenty-sixth Congress); Speaker of the
House of Representatives (Twenty-eighth Congress); declined to be a candidate
for renomination in 1844; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in
agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of delegates in 1846 and
served as speaker; reelected in 1847 but resigned on account of ill health;
died at his residence, Dellwood, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, January
29, 1848; interment in the family cemetery on his estate, Dellwood,
northwest of Petersburg, Va.
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