John Jacob "Jay" Rhodes III (September 8, 1943 – January 20, 2011) was an American politician who was a Republican representative from Arizona's 1st congressional district.

As a result, the younger Rhodes spent much of his youth in Washington, D. C. He graduated from the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland (1961); graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (1965) with an A.B., and from the University of Arizona College of Law in Tucson, Arizona with a J.D.

Rhodes joined the United States Army in 1968, served in Vietnam, and left as a captain in 1970.

[3] In one of the biggest upsets in Arizona political history, Coppersmith defeated Rhodes by just over six points.

He was survived by his wife, Jane, sons John, Taylor, Jeremy, Dennis and Arthur, and mother, Betty Rhodes.