Charles R. Jonas
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 10th district |
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In office January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1963 |
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| Preceded by | Hamilton C. Jones |
| Succeeded by | Basil L. Whitener |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 8th district |
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In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1969 |
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| Preceded by | A. Paul Kitchin |
| Succeeded by | Earl B. Ruth |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 9th district |
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In office January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Jim Broyhill |
| Succeeded by | Jim Martin |
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December 9, 1904 Lincolnton, North Carolina |
| Died | September 28, 1988 (aged 83) Lincolnton, North Carolina |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Annie Elliott Lee |
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Charles Raper Jonas, Jr Richard Elliott Lee Jonas |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Charles Raper Jonas, Jr
Charles Raper Jonas (December 9, 1904 – September 28, 1988) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina for ten terms (1953-1973). At the time of his election in 1952, he became the first Republican to represent his state in either house of the U.S. Congress since his own father, Charles A. Jonas, and George M. Pritchard left office in 1931.
Jonas was born and grew up in Lincolnton, North Carolina, where he attended public schools, which were then racially segregated. He graduated from Lincolnton High School in 1921, where he was voted "Best All Around Member of his Senior Class." He graduated from the University of North Carolina with an AB degree in 1925 and a Juris Doctor with high honors in 1928. As an undergraduate, he was president of the Dialectic Society (1925) and the Monogram Club, and was president of the Class of 1925. In law school, he was student body president in 1926 and founded the school's College Republicans chapter in 1927. He was editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review from 1927 to 1928 and a member of the Order of the Coif.
After graduating from law school, he entered into the law practice of his father, Charles A. Jonas. The firm was renamed as Jonas and Jonas in 1928. His father had been the first Republican elected from North Carolina to serve in Congress in the twentieth century following the disenfranchisement of African Americans by a new suffrage amendment in 1900, which cut them out of the political system and reduced membership in the Republican Party. Jonas later was a Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate, but the state legislature chose a Democratic candidate. The younger Jonas entered the National Guard for the state.
From 1931-1932, Jonas served briefly as an appointed assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In September 1940 he was called to active service as a member of the North Carolina National Guard. During World War II he served in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1945. While later serving in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the North Carolina National Guard, Jonas reached the rank of brigadier general.
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