Thomas Hudson Jones

Thomas Hudson Jones (July 24, 1892 – November 4, 1969) was a U.S. sculptor for the Army's Institute of Heraldry.

He returned to the United States in 1922 to sculpt and teach at Columbia University in New York City.

At the request of the Government, Jones left his McDougal Alley studio in Greenwich Village, New York in 1944 and started work for the Institute of Heraldry in the Washington.

Jones first job was a bust of General Grant made in collaboration with James Earle Fraser for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

Jones married Mildred Dudley, with whom he had four children: Anne, Kim, June, and Peter.

Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis (left) and Major General B. F. Cheatham, Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army, inspect the accepted model and design for the completion of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (1928). The design by sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones and architect Lorimer Rich was selected after a competition in which 73 designs were submitted.