Alexander Hamilton Jones (July 21, 1822 – January 29, 1901) was an American politician who served as a
Congressional Representative
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from
North Carolina
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. He edited the ''Hendersonville Pioneer'' newspaper. A Republican, he was part of the Union League.
Jones was born near the city of Asheville in
, United States, on July 21, 1822.
He engaged in mercantile pursuits, and enlisted in the
Union Army in 1863. He was captured in east
Tennessee
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while raising a regiment of Union Volunteers and imprisoned, but made his escape November 14, 1864. He again joined the Union forces in
Cumberland, Maryland
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.
After the war, Jones returned to North Carolina and became a member of the State convention in 1865. He was elected as a
Republican in November 1865 to the
Thirty-ninth Congress, but was not permitted to qualify. Upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation, he was elected (in April 1868) to the
Fortieth and
Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6, 1868, to March 3, 1871. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the
Forty-second Congress
The 42nd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1871, ...
.
Jones resided in
Washington, D.C.
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, until 1876, in
Maryland
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until 1884, in
Asheville, North Carolina
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, until 1890, and in
Oklahoma
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until 1897, when he moved to
California
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. He died in
Long Beach, California
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, and was buried in
Long Beach Municipal Cemetery
Long Beach Municipal Cemetery, is a cemetery established as early as 1901 and located at the northwest corner of Willow Street and Orange Avenue in Signal Hill, California. It is located next door, and east of Sunnyside Cemetery. It was formerly ...
.
See also
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List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000
References
External links
Findagrave entry
Retrieved on 2009-03-01
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1822 births
1901 deaths
American Civil War prisoners of war
American escapees
People from Buncombe County, North Carolina
Southern Unionists in the American Civil War
Union army soldiers
People of North Carolina in the American Civil War
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives