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    James Chamberlain Jones

    Birth: 4-20-1809

    Death: 10-29-1859

Biography

James Jones was born and raised in Tennessee as a farmer and attended an old-field school when he was young. He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1839, Governor of Tennessee from 1841-1845, and elected as a Whig to the US Senate and served from March 1851 to March 1857. He then retired to his farm in Memphis, TN, where he died in October of 1859.

Letter References

Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, March 18, 1852

Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 16, 1852

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James Jones was born and raised in Tennessee as a farmer and attended an old-field school when he was young. He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1839, Governor of Tennessee from 1841-1845, and elected as a Whig to the US Senate and served from March 1851 to March 1857. He then retired to his farm in Memphis, TN, where he died in October of 1859.
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