George Washington Jones (5 September 1828 – 11 July 1903) was a Texas

Texas

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 politician, a Lieutenant Governor of Texas and a Greenback

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 member of the United States House of Representatives

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Early life

George Washington Jones was born to William Dandridge Claiborne Jones and Rachel Burleson Jones on September 5, 1828 in Marion County, Alabama

Marion County, Alabama

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Military service

Although a supporter of the Union, Jones served as a Colonel in the Confederate States Army

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, in Robert T. Allen’s Seventeenth Texas Infantry.

Public service

From 1858 until 1860, Jones served as Bastrop County Attorney. He was a delegate to the Texas state constitutional convention in 1866. Jones was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1866, with James W. Throckmorton

James W. Throckmorton

James Webb Throckmorton was an American politician who served as the 12th Governor of Texas from 1866 to 1867 during the early days of Reconstruction...

 as Governor. Both Jones and Throckmorton were removed from office in 1867 by General Philip Henry Sheridan for being obstructions to Reconstruction. In 1879, he was elected as United States Congressman for the Texas 5th Congressional District

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Personal life and death

On August 1, 1855, he married Laura Ann Mullins in Bastrop. Jones died on July 11, 1903. Laura Jones died on August 31, 1903. They are both interred the Fairview Cemetery in Bastrop.