Jones was elected judge of Jackson County Court in July 1940 then reelected in absentia in May 1945 where he served until October 1946.

Jones served in the United States Navy as a gunnery officer in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters from December 1943 until February 1946.

[2] He advocated legislation that led to the Federal Highway Act of 1956, which helped create the modern interstate system.

Having been a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto[3] that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.

[9] Jones was an advocate for the economic development of north Alabama, and supported military, NASA, and Tennessee Valley Authority projects in his district.