[1] He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the National Action Party (PAN) of Mexico since 1995.
[2] He was then elected as a member of the Senate in the year 2000, representing the state of Chihuahua.
In 2009, he caused controversy by stating in a public statement that Mexican farmers should learn from drug traffickers how to run their businesses.
Jones was born and grew up in Colonia Dublán, Nuevo Casas Grandes, northwestern Chihuahua, and lives in the birth home of former Governor of Michigan George W. Romney.
He is bilingually fluent in English and Spanish, and the triple-great grandson of Daniel Webster Jones, an influential early settler of Utah and the Arizona Territory.