Robert G. "Bob" Jones
| Robert Gambrell "Bob" Jones | |
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| Louisiana State Senate | |
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In office 1972–1976 |
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| Preceded by | A. C. "Ace" Clemons, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | William L. McLeod |
| Louisiana State Representative from Calcasieu Parish | |
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In office 1968–1972 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 9, 1939 Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican (1978) |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Quinn Jones |
| Children |
Sam Houston Jones, II |
| Occupation | Stockbroker |
| Religion | United Methodist |
Sam Houston Jones, II
Genin Quinn Jones
Anna Gambrelle J. DiGiglia
Robert Gambrell Jones, known as Bob Jones (born May 9, 1939), is a in Lake Charles, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972 and in the State Senate from 1972 to 1976. He is the son of the late Governor Sam H. Jones.
In 1975, Jones was an unsuccessful intraparty opponent to Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards, who secured the second of four nonconsecutive gubernatorial terms in the state's first ever nonpartisan blanket primary. In 1978, Jones switched affiliation to the Republican Party, but he never sought office thereafter as a member of the GOP.
Jones was born in Lake Charles to Sam Houston Jones (1897–1978) and the former Louise Gambrell Boyer (1902–1996). He has a sister, Carolyn Jelks Jones (1938-) and two half-brothers from his mother's first marriage, James G. Boyer (1928-) and William E. "Billy" Boyer (1930-99). A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Billy Boyer was a member of the Lake Charles City Council from 1969 to 1974, and then the elected mayor until 1981.
Bobby Jones was a year old when his father became governor in 1940. He therefore spent his early childhood years in the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge. The Joneses returned to Lake Charles in 1944, when James Houston "Jimmie" Davis became governor. Sam Jones resumed his law practice, and young Jones and his sister, Jelks, grew up in Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish in far southwestern Louisiana. Bob Jones graduated from Lake Charles High School in 1956.
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