Evan John Jones was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

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Jones was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Shamokin is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, at the western edge of the Anthracite Coal Region. At the 2000 census the population was 8,009 residents...

. He graduated from Clarion Normal School in Clarion, Pennsylvania

Clarion, Pennsylvania

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, in 1892. He taught school. He graduated from the Dickinson School of Law

Dickinson School of Law

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 in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice at St. Marys, Pennsylvania

St. Marys, Pennsylvania

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Jones was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 and Sixty-seventh

67th United States Congress

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 Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1922. He resumed the practice of law in Bradford, Pennsylvania

Bradford, Pennsylvania

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He served as vice president and general manager of the Emporium Forestry Co. and as director and general counsel of the Grasse River Railroad Corp.

He died in Bradford, Pennsylvania

Bradford, Pennsylvania

Bradford is a small city located in rural McKean County, Pennsylvania, in the United States 78 miles south of Buffalo, New York. Settled in 1823, Bradford was chartered as a city in 1879 and emerged as a wild oil boomtown in the Pennsylvanian oil rush in the late 19th century...

, aged 79, and is buried in Willow Dale Cemetery.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard