Phineas Jones

Phineas Jones (April 18, 1819, Spencer, Massachusetts – April 19, 1884, Newark, New Jersey) was an American businessman and Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1883 to 1885.

Phineas Jones
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883
Preceded byJohn L. Blake
Succeeded byWilliam H. F. Fiedler
Personal details
Born(1819-04-18)April 18, 1819
Spencer, Massachusetts
DiedApril 19, 1884(1884-04-19) (aged 65)
Newark, New Jersey
Political partyRepublican

Early career

Jones was born in Spencer, Massachusetts on April 18, 1819 to Phineas Jones, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and Hannah Phillips, a descendant of Rev. George Phillips who settled Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630.[1]

He attended the common schools in Spencer and moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey (then called Elizabethtown) in 1855, where he was a member of the city council of Elizabeth from 1856-1860. He moved to Newark in 1860 and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits.

He was vice president of the New Jersey State Agricultural Society, and served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1873 and 1874.

Congress

Jones was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1883, but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1882.

Later life

After leaving Congress, Jones retired from active life and died in Newark on April 19, 1884, the day after his 65th birthday. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey.

References
  1. Phillips genealogies; including the family of George Phillips, first minister of Watertown, Mass., also the families of Ebenezer Phillips, of Southboro, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Duxbury, Mass., Thomas Phillips, of Marshfield, Mass., John Phillips, of Easton, Mass., James Phillips, of Ipswich, Mass., with brief genealogies of Walter Phillips, of Damariscotta, Me., Andrew Phillips, of Kittery, Me., Michael, Richard, Jeremy and Jeremiah Phillips, of Rhode Island; and fragmentary records, of early American families of this name. Auburn, MA 1885
  • United States Congress. "Phineas Jones (id: J000247)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Phineas Jones at The Political Graveyard
  • Phineas Jones at Find a Grave
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
John L. Blake		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 6th congressional district
March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883		 Succeeded by
William H.F. Fiedler
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