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George Wallace Jones

George Wallace Jones
George Wallace Jones, US Senator.jpg
United States Senator
from Iowa
In office
December 7, 1848 – March 4, 1859
Preceded by (none)
Succeeded by James W. Grimes
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin Territory's at-large district
In office
January 26, 1837 – January 14, 1839
Delegate
Preceded by District created
Succeeded by James D. Doty
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan Territory's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1835 – January 26, 1837
Delegate
Preceded by Lucius Lyon
Succeeded by District Abolished
Michigan added to the Union
Personal details
Born (1804-04-12)April 12, 1804
Vincennes, Indiana, US
Died July 22, 1896(1896-07-22) (aged 92)
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Political party

Democratic

Jacksonian
Alma mater Transylvania University
Profession Politician, Lawyer, Judge, Miner, Storekeeper

Democratic

George Wallace Jones (April 12, 1804 – July 22, 1896), a frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party, Jones served over ten years in the Senate, from December 7, 1848 to March 4, 1859. During the American Civil War, he was arrested by Federal authorities and briefly jailed on suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies.

Jones was born in Vincennes, Indiana. He was the son of John Rice Jones, who became active in efforts directed toward the introduction of slavery to the country north of the Ohio River. When George was six years old, his father moved the family to Missouri Territory, recently acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase. As a child he served as a drummer for a volunteer company in the War of 1812. He later moved to Kentucky where he attended Transylvania University in 1825, and returned to Missouri to study law with his brother. After he was admitted to the bar and had practiced law for a short time, he went to work at Sinsinawa Mound, then in Michigan Territory, where he mined lead and worked and a storekeeper. He returned to Missouri, where he courted and married seventeen-year-old Josephine Gregiore in 1829. In 1831 Jones returned to Sinsinawa with his wife, seven slaves and several French laborers, to resume lead mining.

In 1832, Jones fought the Sauk and Fox Indians in the Black Hawk War, in which his brother-in-law Felix St. Vrain was killed. Jones was a judge in the local county court.


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