Alexander Hamilton Jones (July 21, 1822 – January 29, 1901) was a Congressional Representative from

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. Jones was born in

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, where he completed his preparatory studies. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, and enlisted in the

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in 1863. He was captured in east

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while raising a regiment of Union Volunteers and imprisoned, but made his escape November 14, 1864. He again joined the Union forces in

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. After the war, Jones returned to North Carolina and became a member of the State convention in 1865. He was elected as a

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in November 1865 to the

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, but was not permitted to qualify. Upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation, he was elected (in April 1868) to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6, 1868, to March 3, 1871. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress. Jones resided in

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, until 1876, in

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until 1884, in Asheville, North Carolina, until 1890, and in Oklahoma until 1897, when he moved to

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. He died in

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, and was buried in Signal Hill Cemetery.

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