# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesse-h-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:59:27.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesse-h-jones"
name: "Jesse H. Jones"
slug: "jesse-h-jones"
description: "Jesse Holman Jones was an American Democratic politician and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas. Jones managed a Tennessee tobacco factory at age fourteen, and at nineteen, he was put in charge of his uncle's lumberyards. Five years later, after his uncle, M. T. Jones, died, Jones moved to Houston to manage his uncle's estate and opened a lumberyard company, which grew quickly. During this period, Jesse opened his own business, the South Texas Lumber Company. He also began to expand into real estate, commercial building, and banking. His commercial building activities in Houston included mid-rise and skyscraper office buildings, hotels and apartments, and movie theaters. He constructed the Foster Building, home to the Houston Chronicle, in exchange for a fifty percent share in the newspaper, of which he acquired control in 1926."
tagline: "American politician and entrepreneur (1874–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jesse_Holman_Jones_pers0174.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1874-04-05"
deathDate: "1956-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.4885736800630418
  historical:           8.781249333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump