Phineas Jones

Phineas Jones
Phineas Jones
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from New Jersey's 6th district
	In office; March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883
Preceded by	John L. Blake
Succeeded by	William H. F. Fiedler
Personal details
Born	April 18, 1819; Spencer, Massachusetts
Died	April 19, 1884 (aged 65); Newark, New Jersey
Political party	Republican

Phineas Jones (April 18, 1819, Spencer, Massachusetts – April 19, 1884, Newark, New Jersey) was a Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1885.

Biography

Jones was born in Spencer, Massachusetts on April 18, 1819 to Phineas Jones, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and Hannah Phillips, a descendant of Rev. George Phillips who settled Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630.[1]

Jones attended the common schools in Spencer. He moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey (then called Elizabethtown) in 1855, where he was a member of the city council of Elizabeth from 1856-1860. He moved to Newark in 1860 and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. He was vice president of the New Jersey State Agricultural Society, and served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1873 and 1874.

Jones was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1883, but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1882.

After leaving Congress, Jones retired from active life and died in Newark on April 19, 1884, the day after his 65th birthday. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey.

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References

Phillips genealogies; including the family of George Phillips, first minister of Watertown, Mass., also the families of Ebenezer Phillips, of Southboro, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Duxbury, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Marshfield, Mass., John Phillips, of Easton, Mass., James Phillips, of Ipswich, Mass., with brief genealogies of Walter Phillips, of Damariscotta, Me., Andrew Phillips, of Kittery, Me., Michael, Richard, Jeremy and Jeremiah Phillips, of Rhode Island; and fragmentary records, of early American families of this name. Auburn, MA 1885

External links

United States Congress. "Phineas Jones (id: J000247)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Phineas Jones at The Political Graveyard
Phineas Jones at Find a Grave

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by John L. Blake	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 6th congressional district March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883	Succeeded by William H.F. Fiedler

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[1] Phillips genealogies; including the family of George Phillips, first minister of Watertown, Mass., also the families of Ebenezer Phillips, of Southboro, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Duxbury, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Marshfield, Mass., John Phillips, of Easton, Mass., James Phillips, of Ipswich, Mass., with brief genealogies of Walter Phillips, of Damariscotta, Me., Andrew Phillips, of Kittery, Me., Michael, Richard, Jeremy and Jeremiah Phillips, of Rhode Island; and fragmentary records, of early American families of this name. Auburn, MA 1885