Evan John Jones (politician) explained

Evan John Jones
Image Name:	Evan John Jones.jpg
State:	Pennsylvania
District:	21st
Party:	Republican Party
Term Start:	March 4, 1919
Term End:	March 3, 1923
Preceded:	Charles H. Rowland
Succeeded:	Jacob B. Kurtz
Birth Date:	23 October 1872
Birth Place:	Shamokin, Pennsylvania
Death Place:	Bradford, Pennsylvania
Occupation:	Attorney
Alma Mater:	Clarion Normal School Dickinson School of Law

Evan John Jones (October 23, 1872  - January 9, 1952) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Jones was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Clarion Normal School in Clarion, Pennsylvania, in 1892. He taught school. He graduated from the Dickinson School of Law in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice at St. Marys, Pennsylvania.^{[3] [4]}

Jones was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1922. He resumed the practice of law in Bradford, Pennsylvania.^{[5] [6]}

He served as vice president and general manager of the Emporium Forestry Co. and as director and general counsel of the Grasse River Railroad Corp.^[7] He died at the age of seventy-nine in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the Willow Dale Cemetery.^{[8] [9]}

References

• The Political Graveyard

Notes and References

1. "Jones, Evan John" (J000217), in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, retrieved online March 4, 2023.
2. "Jones, Evan John." Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Political Graveyard, May 10, 2022.
3. "Jones, Evan John," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
4. "Jones, Evan John," The Political Graveyard.
5. "Jones, Evan John," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
6. "Jones, Evan John," The Political Graveyard.
7. "Jones, Evan John," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
8. "Jones, Evan John," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
9. "Jones, Evan John," The Political Graveyard.