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Phineas Jones

American businessman and politician

Field	Value
name	Phineas Jones
image	PhineasJones.jpg
state	New Jersey
district
term_start	March 4, 1881
term_end	March 3, 1883
predecessor	John L. Blake
successor	William H. F. Fiedler
birth_name	Phineas Jones
restingplace	Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey
birth_date
birth_place	Spencer, Massachusetts
death_date
death_place	Newark, New Jersey
party	Republican

Phineas Jones (April 18, 1819 – April 19, 1884) 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 1881 to 1883.

Early life and family

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.

Early career

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 to 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

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

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