Forth, William Stuart. "Wesley L. Jones: A Political Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1962.
JONES, Wesley Livsey
1863–1932
Biography
JONES, Wesley Livsey, a Representative and a Senator from Washington; born near Bethany, Moultrie County, Ill., October 9, 1863; attended the common schools; taught school; graduated from Southern Illinois College at Enfield in 1885; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Decatur, Ill.; moved to North Yakima, Wash., in 1889, and continued the practice of his profession; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1909); did not seek renomination in 1908, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1909; reelected in 1914, 1920, and 1926, and served from March 4, 1909, until his death on November 19, 1932; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; Republican whip 1924-1929; chairman, Committee on Industrial Expositions (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Fisheries (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee to Investigate Trespassers Upon Indian Land (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Commerce (Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses); died in Seattle, Wash., November 19, 1932; remains were cremated and the ashes placed in the Bonney-Watson Mortuary, Seattle, Wash.
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Herbert Hoover Library
West Branch, IA
Papers:
1921-1928. 5 folders.
University of Washington Libraries
Manuscripts and University Archives
Seattle, WA
Papers:
1896-1932. 147 feet. Personal and political correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly relating to his congressional career and Republican party activities. Finding aid.
Additional Papers:
In Seattle Audubon Society records, 1909-1987; Walter B. Beals papers, 1916-1951; Mark Allison Matthews papers, 1884-1948; and Edwin Gardner Ames papers, 1887-1931. Finding aid.
Washington State Historical Society
Tacoma, WA
Papers:
30 letters.
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
Papers:
Miscellaneous items in various collections including correspondence in Osmar Lysander Waller papers, 1897-1935.
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Bibliography / Further Reading
U.S. Congress. House. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Wesley L. Jones, Late a Senator from Washington. 72d Cong., 2d sess., 1932-1933. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933.