Biography of Charles W. Jones, Pensacola, Escambia Co., FL

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CHARLES W. JONES, UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM FLORIDA

     Charles W. Jones, is descended from Irish ancestry, having been born in Ireland
in 1834.  He emigrated with his father's family to this country when only ten years
of age.  He learned a mechanical trade, followed it at different places in the
South, and finally, in 1854, settled in Pensacola, Florida.  Meanwhile, by a course
of private study, reading and observation, he became practically an educated man,
and entered the profession of law, commencing practice at the Bar in 1857, at
Pensacola.  In 1870 Mr. Jones was sent a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention at Baltimore.  In 1874 he was elected to the Senate of the United States,
taking his seat March 04, 1875.  He was re-elected in 1881.
     Mr. Jones has served his State ably and well, and his whole career strikingly
illustrated the grand opportunities which our broad land offers to aspiring youth.
No one could have prophesied a place for him in the Senate of the world's greatest
Republic when he was on the emigrant ship which brought him to America.  But self-
culture and an honorable life have raised him from the lowliest circles of boyhood
to one of the highest honors in the country of his adoption.
     Senator Jones is a hard student, and labors diligently at a set speech.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company,
Hartford, p. 192.

[Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge,  barbarawinge@yahoo.com]