Alexander Hamilton Jones (July 21, 1822 – January 29, 1901) was an American politician who served as a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.
[1] Jones was born near the city of Asheville in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States, on July 21, 1822.
He was captured in east Tennessee while raising a regiment of Union Volunteers and imprisoned, but made his escape November 14, 1864.
Upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation, he was elected (in April 1868) to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6, 1868, to March 3, 1871.
Jones resided in Washington, D.C., until 1876, in Maryland until 1884, in Asheville, North Carolina, until 1890, and in Oklahoma until 1897, when he moved to California.