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Senate Years of Service: 1873-1895; 1895-1901; 1901-1903 Party: Republican; Silver; Republican
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JONES, John Percival, a Senator from Nevada; born at The Hay, Herefordshire, England,
January 27, 1829; immigrated the same year to the United States with his
parents, who settled in the northern part of Ohio; attended the public schools
in Cleveland, Ohio; moved to California and engaged in mining and farming in
Trinity County; sheriff of the county; member, State senate 1863-1867; moved to
Gold Hill, Nev., in 1868; engaged in mining; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1873; reelected in 1879, 1885, 1891, and 1897 and
served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1903; declined to be a candidate for
reelection; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses
(Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and Forty-seventh through
Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Epidemic Diseases (Fifty-third through
Fifty-seventh Congresses); resumed his former business activities; retired to
his home in Santa Monica, Calif.; died in Los Angeles, Calif., November 27,
1912; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.; remains removed
and reinterred in unknown location.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Schlup, Leonard. Nevadas
Doctrinaire Senator: John P. Jones and the Politics of Silver in the Golden
Age.
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 36 (Winter 1993): 246-62.
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