Evan John Jones (October 23, 1872 – January 9, 1952) was a
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
Biography
Jones was born in
Shamokin, Pennsylvania. He graduated from
Clarion Normal School in
Clarion, Pennsylvania
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, in 1892. He taught school. He graduated from the
Dickinson School of Law
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in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice at
St. Marys, Pennsylvania
St. Marys is a city in Elk County, Pennsylvania, Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population is 12,429 as of 2019. Originally a small town inhabited by mostly Bavarian Roman Catholics, it was founded December 8, 1842. It is home to Str ...
.
Jones was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and
Sixty-seventh Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1922. He resumed the practice of law in
Bradford, Pennsylvania.
He served as vice president and general manager of the Emporium Forestry Co. and as director and general counsel of the Grasse River Railroad Corp.
He died at the age of seventy-nine in
Bradford, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the Willow Dale Cemetery.
["Jones, Evan John," ''The Political Graveyard''.]
References
The Political Graveyard
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1872 births
1952 deaths
Pennsylvania lawyers
People from Bradford, Pennsylvania
Clarion University of Pennsylvania alumni
Dickinson School of Law alumni
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania