[1] After attending school in New York City and St. Louis, Missouri, Jones moved to Louisiana and later to Mississippi.

[1] In addition to practicing law, Jones was appointed tax assessor for Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties.

[2] In 1874, Jones won a seat on the Florida House of Representatives, an election that was notable because his margin of victory was only five votes.

[2] During the dispute that followed the 1876 United States presidential election, he objected to counting Florida's electoral votes for Republican Rutherford B.

[2] When Jones failed to appear for the 1886–1887 congressional session, senate leaders removed him from his committee assignments and appointed replacements.

[2] Florida newspapers began campaigning for Jones to be replaced, but Governor Edward A. Perry refused to act, citing the lack of rules or precedent regarding a senator who would not work but had not been officially declared physically or mentally impaired.

"Senator Jones of Florida, of whom there was so much sensational newspaper talk last year, is now a mental wreck and penniless in Detroit, and dependent upon a friend for food," said one Kentucky paper in early December 1887.

[9] In 1977, his Pensacola home, the Charles William Jones House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.