[1] Jones was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1942, and served consecutive terms in through 1953.
Governor Walter Edge appointed him to serve as on the State Administrative Reorganization Commission in 1945.
[4] In 1954, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appointed him to serve as a member of the Inter-Governmental Committee on European Migration.
Jones sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 1961, and at the start of the campaign he was considered the front-runner.
[7] A federal grand jury indicted Jones in 1971 on charges that he covered up a $2.4 million bank fraud.