JONES, Francis, a Representative from Tennessee; born c. 1788; received a limited schooling; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Winchester, Tenn.; solicitor general of the third Tennessee district in 1815; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); resumed the practice of his profession in Winchester, Franklin County, Tenn.; moved to Huntsville, Ala.; United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1824-1826; died on August 31, 1826, while traveling between Tuscaloosa and Huntsville, Ala.
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