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Walter Jones (Virginia politician)

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
name	Walter Jones
state	Virginia
district	8th
term	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1811
succeeded	John Hungerford
preceded	Thomas Claiborne
office2	Member of the Virginia Senate from Lancaster, Richmond and Northumberland Counties
term2	1802–1803
preceded2	John Tayloe
succeeded2	Richard Barnes
term3	1785–1786
preceded3	William Peachey
succeeded3	John Gordon
state4	Virginia
district4	19th
term4	March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1799
preceded4	John Heath
succeeded4	Henry Lee
party	Democratic-Republican
birth_date
birth_place	Williamsburg, Virginia Colony, British America
death_date
death_place	Westmoreland County, Virginia, U.S.
nationality	American
alma_mater	College of William and Mary (1760)
profession	Physician

| honorific-prefix = | honorific-suffix = Walter Jones (December 18, 1745December 31, 1815) was an 18th- and 19th-century politician and physician from the Tidewater region of Virginia.

Early life and education

Born in Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia, Jones graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1760. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland and received a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1770.

Career

He returned to Northumberland County, Virginia and became physician general of the Middle Military Department in 1777. Jones was a member of the Virginia Senate from 1785 to 1787. He was also a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788; an event held at the Richmond Theatre. He was elected a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1796, serving from 1797 to 1799. He returned to the state Senate in 1802 and 1803 and was elected back to the House of Representatives again in 1802, serving from 1803 to 1811.

Personal life

His son and namesake, Walter Jones (1775-1861) practiced law in Washington most of his life and reportedly argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court – over 300, including McCulloch vs. Maryland - than any other attorney in American history. A close friend of James Madison, James Marshall and John Calhoun, that Walter Jones Jr. also held the rank of Major General of the Army, and rode at the head of the District of Columbia Militia at presidential inaugurations. The younger Jones was also a member of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious society which counted among its members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many other prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions. Living until the start of the Civil War, he strongly opposed Virginia’s secession.

Death and legacy

The elder Jones died in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on December 31, 1815, and was interred there in the family cemetery at "Hayfield" near what is now Callao, Virginia.

References

Rathbun, Richard. (1904). "The Columbian institute for the promotion of arts and sciences: A Washington Society of 1816-1838.". Bulletin of the United States National Museum, October 18, 1917.

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