William Atkinson Jones
| William Atkinson Jones | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 1st district |
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In office March 4, 1891 – April 17, 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas H. B. Browne |
| Succeeded by | S. Otis Bland |
| Chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs | |
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In office March 4, 1911 – April 17, 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Marlin Edgar Olmsted |
| Succeeded by | Horace Mann Towner |
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March 21, 1849 Warsaw, Virginia |
| Died | April 17, 1918 (aged 69) Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery 37°57′28″N 76°45′19″W / 37.957901°N 76.755226°W |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Claude Douglas Motley |
| Children | William Atkinson Jones |
| Residence | Warsaw, Virginia |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Profession | lawyer, legislator |
| Religion | Episcopalianism |
William Atkinson Jones (March 21, 1849 – April 17, 1918) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1918 from the first district of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Jones was born in Warsaw, Virginia on March 21, 1849 coming from honorable American stock. His great-grandfather, Joseph Jones, was a general in the Revolutionary War, an intimate and trusted friend of Lafayette, and subsequently postmaster of Petersburg, Virginia by appointment of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jones, the son of Joseph, married Mary Lee, the daughter of Richard Lee, long a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Westmoreland County, a first cousin of the famous Richard Henry Lee; and from this marriage was born Thomas Jones II, his father who married Anne Seymour Trowbridge of Plattsburg, New York. James Trowbridge, his maternal grandfather, was recognized by the Congress for his gallantry at the Battle of Plattsburg in 1814. He came from a good heritage, a heritage of which he never boasted, but which he exemplified by a life of high purpose and eminent usefulness.
His boyhood fell during the American Civil War. His father, a former soldier, lawyer, and a judge entered him as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington in the fall of 1864, where he remained until the evacuation of Richmond, serving as occasion required with the corps of that famous institute in defense of the capital of his State. Thus, as a boy of 16 he did arduous and valiant military service. He was then placed in Coleman's School, at Fredericksburg from which he entered the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in October, 1868. He graduated with distinction in its School of Law in June, 1870. He was also a noted athlete in school.
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