He was born in Seymour to carpenter Charles Alexander Jones and Sarah Anne Bryant.
He attended the local primary school and became a telegraph messenger and telephone technician.
On 5 May 1936 he married Alice Edna Paschke, with whom he had a daughter.
In 1952 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat Province.
He served until his defeat in 1958 and did not return to parliament, although he ran unsuccessfully for both upper and lower house seats in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1970.