He pursued classical studies and graduated from Princeton College in 1852 and from the law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1855.

During the Civil War, Jones enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a private in the Fourth Alabama Regiment.

The event was mentioned on page 48 in R.T.Coles’s “From Huntsville to Appomattox: History of 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A., Army of Northern Virginia” He served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865.

Jones was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. Herndon.

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