George Wallace Jones

George Jones
United States Minister to New Granada
In office
August 29, 1859 – November 4, 1861
PresidentJames Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Preceded byJames B. Bowlin
Succeeded byAllan Burton (Colombia)
United States Senator
from Iowa
In office
December 7, 1848 – March 3, 1859
Preceded bySeat established
Succeeded byJames W. Grimes
Delegate to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the Wisconsin Territory's
at-large district
In office
December 5, 1836 – January 3, 1839
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byJames D. Doty
Delegate to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the Michigan Territory's
at-large district
In office
March 4, 1835 – June 15, 1836
Preceded byLucius Lyon
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born(1804-04-12)April 12, 1804
Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.
DiedJuly 22, 1896(1896-07-22) (aged 92)
Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.
Political partyJacksonian (Before 1837)
Democratic (1837–1896)
EducationTransylvania University (BA)
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George Wallace Jones (April 12, 1804 – July 22, 1896) was an American frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party, Jones served over ten years in the Senate, from December 7, 1848 to March 3, 1859. During the American Civil War, he was arrested by Federal authorities and briefly jailed on suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies.