Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Michigan Territory - George W. Jones, William Woodbridge, Lucius Lyon (Paperback)

Chapters: George W. Jones, William Woodbridge, Lucius Lyon, Solomon Sibley, Gabriel Richard, John Biddle, Austin Eli Wing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Wallace Jones (April 12, 1804 July 22, 1896), a frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party, Jones served over ten years in the Senate, from December 7, 1848 to March 3, 1859. Jones was born in Vincennes, Indiana. He was the son of John Rice Jones, who became active in efforts directed toward the introduction of slavery to the country north of the Ohio River. When George was six years old, his father moved the family to Missouri Territory, recently acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase. As a child he served as a drummer for a volunteer company in the War of 1812. He later moved to Kentucky where he attended Transylvania University in 1825, and returned to Missouri to study law with his brother. After he was admitted to the bar and had practiced law for a short time, he went to work at Sinsinawa Mound, then in Michigan Territory, where he mined lead and worked and a storekeeper. He returned to Missouri, where he courted and married seventeen-year-old Josephine Gregiore in 1829. In 1831 Jones returned to Sinsinawa with his wife, seven slaves and several French laborers, to resume lead mining. In 1832, Jones fought the Sauk and Fox Indians in the Black Hawk War. Jones was a judge in the local county court. Jones represented the Michigan Territory as a delegate in Congress from 1835 until 1837. His constituency included all of what is now the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesot...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=350415