John W. Jones was a state legislator in Alabama. He served in the Senate in the 1872 and 1874 legislatures. Jones was from North Carolina. He served in the

Alabama Senate The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, with each district conta ...

representing Lowndes County. Clerk of the

Alabama House of Representatives The Alabama State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal number of districts, with each constituency contai ...

Ellis Phelan Ellis Phelan (1843–1897) served as the 20th Secretary of State of Alabama from 1882 to 1885. Phelan graduated from the University of Alabama then entered the Confederate States Army. He was clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives The ...

, reported on a petition to the Alabama legislature " praying for the expulsion" of Jones and state representative H. A. Carson. He was awarded a contract as a mail carrier in 1875. In 1881, he was involved in a contested election with

Charles M. Shelley Charles Miller Shelley (December 28, 1833 – January 20, 1907) was a Brigadier General (CSA), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a late Reconstruction era of the United States, Reconstructio ...

for a vacated U.S. House seat in the

47th United States Congress The 47th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1881, ...

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