George Alfred Jones (1866 – 8 April 1938) was an Australian politician. He was born in

Inverell Inverell is a large town in northern New South Wales, Australia, situated on the Macintyre River, close to the Queensland border. It is also the centre of Inverell Shire. Inverell is located on the Gwydir Highway on the western slopes of the No ...

to schoolmaster Robert Brown and Helen Moore. He married Frances Louisa Durnford around 1891 at

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; they had three children. A printer, he was president of the Typographical Association from 1897 to 1901, and worked with various newspapers. In 1902 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

. He transferred to Gwydir in 1904 and served until his defeat in 1913. Jones died at Bondi in 1938.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, George 1866 births 1938 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Colony of New South Wales people