James Jones (Virginia politician)

He earned a degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland in 1796.

He returned to Amelia County, where he practiced medicine and also engaged in agricultural pursuits.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peterson Goodwyn, but was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823).

Jones again became a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1827 to 1829, and subsequently resumed agricultural pursuits.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress