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John P. Jones

Union

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-03-1862 Union SD-26 0 Win
09-05-1865 Union SD-26 0 Win
09-04-1867 Union Lieutenant Governor 44584 Loss
Website: bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000237
 

Candidate Biography:

John Percival Jones
Born: January 27, 1829 in Herefordshire, England
Married: Hannah Cornelia Greathouse (in 1861), Georgina Frances Sullivan (in 1875)
Children: Roy Jones, Alice MacMonnies, Marion Farquhar and Georgina Walton
Died: November 12, 1912 in Los Angeles, CA

1850s: Sheriff of the Trinity County
1873-1903: Member, United States Senate [Nevada]
1875: Founder, City of Santa Monica

Source: California's Stately Hall of Fame by Rockwell D. Hunt (1950)
Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]