Burr W. Jones

Burr W. Jones was an American lawyer, jurist, and Democratic politician from Dane County, Wisconsin. He served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district for the 48th Congress (1883–1885). Later in life, he served five years as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, from 1920 through 1925. He was a prominent law professor in Wisconsin, working for more than 30 years at the University of Wisconsin Law School; he also served on the Wisconsin Tax Commission and was president of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and authored a three-volume legal treatise known as Jones on Evidence.