[1] He was admitted to the Perry County bar in 1910, before entering private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1910 to 1939.

[2] In 1938, Jones ran for Governor of Pennsylvania as the endorsed Democratic candidate, but lost to Arthur James by nearly 300,000 votes.

[3] Jones was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 14, 1939, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by Judge John Warren Davis.

[5] Jones was briefly senior advisor to the Philadelphia law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Another son, Charles Alvin Jones Jr. was killed during World War II while serving as a Marine aviator in the Pacific.