Jesse H. Jones
American politician and entrepreneur (1874-1956) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 82
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.
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Sudley Place in Tennessee, Jones's childhood home, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Portrait of Jones at the age of seventeen (c. 1891)
View of Main Street, Dallas, c. 1900
Illustration of the Rice Hotel, Houston (1916)
National Bank of Commerce advertising sale of Liberty Bonds, 1918
Illustration of the Foster Building, also known as the Houston Chronicle Building (1913)
Postcard depicting a cotton-laden ship, Houston Ship Channel, 1914About this person
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.
