Paul J. Jones (November 4, 1880 – August 4, 1965) was an American college football player and coach and United States federal judge.

[8] He served as Chief Judge from 1948 to 1959, as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1958 to 1960, and remained on the court until his death on August 4, 1965.

[8] At the time of his death at age 84, Jones was the oldest active district court judge in the United States and the last appointed by President Harding.

[1] In 1933, Judge Jones gained attention when he sentenced a 46-year-old pregnant mother of ten to 15 days in jail for selling a quart of liquor to federal agents for 50 cents.

"[10] As he sentenced her, Judge Jones lectured her on the advantages of birth control, closing his comments by asking, "Doesn't this woman know how to stop it?

He held that, while rent control may have been permissible during the wartime emergency, Congress lacked the power to continue the restrictions "when peace has returned in fact.

Judge Jones, of the Northern Ohio District Court, handed down the ruling that the rent law is unconstitutional.

If sustained by higher courts, his decision means, simply, that all rent controls are over and done for, that landlords can charge all the traffic will bear and that tenants can pay or get out.