Muscogee-Baldwin-Richmond County GaArchives Biographies.....Jones, Seaborn February 1, 1788 - March 18, 1864 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Mallory Land retrofit@flash.net June 20, 2006, 4:23 pm Author: John H. Martin / Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress Seaborn JONES removed from Milledgeville to Columbus. He was one of the shrewdest and most successful lawyers in Georgia, well versed in the pleadings, and managing his cases with an adroitness that often surprised opposing counsel. He was elected to Congress, this year [1833], in a contest that greatly divided the vote of Muscogee county – both M. B. LAMAR and John MILTON opposing him, and LAMAR especially taking off many votes that JONES would have received had he not been in the field. He [JONES] made an able member of Congress, and was again elected in 1844, by a close vote, after a spirited contest with the able Whig candidate, Wm. H. CRAWFORD of Sumter. He died March 18, 1864, in the ____ year of his age. JONES, Seaborn, a Representative from Georgia; born in Augusta, Ga., February 1, 1788; attended Princeton College; studied law; by a special act of the legislature was admitted to the bar in 1808; commenced practice in Milledgeville, Ga.; appointed solicitor general of the Ocmulgee circuit in September 1817; solicitor general of Georgia in 1823; one of the commissioners appointed to investigate the disturbances in the Creek Nation; moved to Columbus, Ga., in 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); died in Columbus, Ga., March 18, 1864; interment in Linnwood Cemetery. Additional Comments: First sketch from "The Making of a Modern City: Columbus Georgia, 1827-1865," by John H. Martin (1875, reprinted 1972), Volume I, pp. 42-43. Second sketch from the Biographical Directory of the United State Congress (online). Accompanying photo and caption appear in "Images: A Pictorial History of Columbus, Georgia," by F. Clason KYLE (Norfolk, VA: The Donning Company/Publishers, 1986), p. 34. Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/photos/bios/jones884gbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/bios/jones884gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb