John William Jones (Alabama state senator)
John William Jones (d. January 29, 1909) was an American politician and civil servant from Alabama.
Just after the American Civil War he was active as a businessman in Hayneville, Alabama, where he ran a plantation, a race track, and a store. In the city of Montgomery, the area of High Street and Jackson Street, he bought up large swaths of land in the mid-1880s, and built a large building named "Centennial Hall" there. He was a state senator for Lowndes County, Alabama, and had been a delegate to the Republican National Convention four times. After he retired from politics he was a district revenue collector for Mobile and Montgomery. At his death, he was praised by the Colored Alabamian. Jones was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.[1]
References
- ^ Bailey, Richard (2010). Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878 (revised ed.). NewSouth Books. p. 276. ISBN 9781588381897.