Benjamin Jones (congressman)

Benjamin Jones
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 18th district
In office March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837
Preceded by	new district
Succeeded by	Matthias Shepler
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Wayne County district
In office December 3, 1821 – December 1, 1822
Preceded by	Jacob Barker
Succeeded by	Cyrus Spink
Member of the Ohio Senate from the Wayne County district
In office December 7, 1829 – December 2, 1832
Preceded by	Joseph H. Larwill
Succeeded by	Thomas Robinson
Personal details
Born	(1787-04-13)April 13, 1787 Winchester, Virginia
Died	April 24, 1861(1861-04-24) (aged 74) Wooster, Ohio
Resting place	Oak Hil Cemetery, Wooster, Ohio
Political party	Democratic

Benjamin Jones (April 13, 1787 – April 24, 1861) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for two terms from 1833 to 1837.

Biography[]

Born in Winchester, Virginia, Jones moved with his parents to Washington, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling. He learned the trade of cabinetmaking. He moved to Wooster, Ohio, in 1812 and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1815, and commissioner for Wayne County in 1818. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1821–1822, and in the Ohio Senate from 1829 to 1832. Ohio Presidential elector in 1828 for Andrew Jackson.^[1]

Congress[]

Jones was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War in the Twenty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination.

Later career and death[]

He resumed business interests in Wooster, and died there April 24, 1861. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Sources[]

• United States Congress. "Benjamin Jones (id: J000212)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... Vol. 1. State of Ohio. p. 145.

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