Robert Gambrell Jones, known as Bob Jones (born May 9, 1939), is a former Louisiana politician who served in the

Louisiana House of Representatives The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ...

from 1968 to 1972 and in the

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from 1972 to 1976. Entering politics as a

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, Jones became a

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in 1978."Bob Jones turns Republican", ''Minden Press-Herald'', February 27, 1978, p. 1.

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