Jeffrey Max Jones is a Mexican

Mexican people

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 politician

Politics

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He graduated from Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 (Provo

Provo, Utah

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, Utah

Utah

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, USA) in International Relations in 1982. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) and the National Action Party

National Action Party (Mexico)

The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...

 (PAN) of Mexico since 1995. He served in the Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies

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 from 1997 to 2000, representing Chihuahua's First District

First Federal Electoral District of Chihuahua

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. He was then elected as a member of the national Senado de la Republica Senate in the year 2000, representing the State of Chihuahua. He served as president of the Border Affairs committee and member of the Agriculture

Agriculture

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 and Agrarian Reform

Land reform

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 committees. His six-year term expired in 2006 since there is no immediate re-election for senators in Mexico.

Jones served from 2006 to 2009 as Undersecretary of Agribusiness Development with the SAGARPA (Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganaderia, Desarollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación) and focused on three areas: prospective planning, market development, and finance.

Jones was born and grew up in Colonia Dublán

Colonia Dublan

Colonia Dublán began as a Mormon colony, located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. It is now a part of Nuevo Casas Grandes. It is one of the few surviving Mormon colonies in Mexico .-History:...

, Nuevo Casas Grandes, in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, and currently lives, by coincidence, in the birth home of George W. Romney

George W. Romney

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, former Governor of Michigan

Governor of Michigan

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. Jones is bilingual, fluent in English and Spanish. He is the great-great-great grandson of Daniel Webster Jones

Daniel Webster Jones (Mormon)

Daniel Webster Jones was an American and Mormon pioneer. He was the leader of the group that colonized what eventually became Mesa, Arizona, made the first translation of selections of The Book of Mormon into Spanish, led the first Mormon missionary expedition into Mexico, dealt frequently with...

, an influential early settler in Utah and the Arizona Territory

Arizona Territory

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External links

• Profile of Senator Jeffrey Max Jones on the Senate website (in Spanish).
• Famous Mormon legistators.
• Elizabeth Stuart, "Jeffrey Max Jones: Dreaming of a Better Mexico", March 20, 2011, Deseret News