George Jones was a United States Senator from Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

. Born in Savannah

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, he received an academic training, studied medicine with his father, and practiced for a number of years. He participated in the American Revolutionary War

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 and during 1780 and 1781 was imprisoned upon an English ship. He was later a member of the Georgia House of Representatives

Georgia House of Representatives

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 and Georgia Senate

Georgia Senate

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, and during the War of 1812

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 he served as captain of a company of Savannah reserves. He was a member of the Savannah board of aldermen in 1793–1794, 1802–1803, and 1814–1815, and was mayor

Mayor

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 of Savannah from 1812 to 1814. He was appointed judge of the eastern judicial circuit of Georgia in 1804, and served until he became a U.S. Senator, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Abraham Baldwin

Abraham Baldwin

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 and serving from August 27, 1807, to November 7, 1807, when a successor was elected.

Jones died in Savannah and was interred in Bonaventure Cemetery

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His father, Noble Wimberly Jones, was a Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress

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, and his grandfather, Noble Jones

Noble Jones

Noble Wimberly Jones was an American physician and statesman from Savannah, Georgia. A leading Georgia patriot in the American Revolution, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1781 and 1782....

, was one of Georgia's first settlers.