Jeffrey Max Jones Jones (born 25 April 1958) is a Mexican

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. He graduated from

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in International Relations in 1982. He is a member of

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and the National Action Party (PAN) of Mexico since 1995. He served in the

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from 1997 to 2000, representing Chihuahua's First District. He was then elected as a member of the national ''Senado de la Republica''

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in the year 2000, representing the State of Chihuahua. He served as president of the Border Affairs committee and member of the

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and

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committees. His six-year term expired in 2006 since there is no immediate re-election for senators in Mexico. Jones served from 2006 to 2009 as Undersecretary of Agribusiness Development with the SAGARPA (Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganaderia, Desarollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación) and focused on three areas: prospective planning, market development, and finance. Jones was born and grew up in

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, Nuevo Casas Grandes, in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, and lives, by coincidence, in the birth home of

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, former

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. Jones is bilingual, fluent in English and Spanish. He is the great-great-great grandson of Daniel Webster Jones, an influential early settler in Utah and the

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References

External links

Profile of Senator Jeffrey Max Jones
on the Senate website (in Spanish).

*Elizabeth Stuart

March 20, 2011, ''

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'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Jeffrey Max 1958 births Living people Brigham Young University alumni Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) People from Colonia Dublán Mexican Latter Day Saints Mexican people of American descent National Action Party (Mexico) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) 20th-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians Politicians from Chihuahua (state)