George W. Jones
American politician, judge and diplomat (1804-1896) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 92
George Wallace Jones was an American frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846.
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A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party, Jones served over ten years in the Senate, from December 7, 1848, to March 3, 1859. During the American Civil War, he was arrested by Federal authorities and briefly jailed on suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies.
