Walter "Wiley" Jones (July 14, 1841 – December 7, 1904) was a businessman in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who was one of the wealthiest African-Americans in his state.

He owned the first streetcar company in Pine Bluff and a park in the city which housed the fairgrounds.

Walter "Wiley" Jones was born in Madison County in northeastern Georgia, on July 14, 1848.

Anne was called his wife in an 1889 biography of Jones, and she believed that George had promised to free herself and her children upon his death, but no manumission papers were found, and the family was kept as slaves and sold by the estate administrator, Peter Finerty, to James Yell, a lawyer and planter in Pine Bluff.

He was then hired to drive a wagon carrying cotton on a route along the Brazos River to San Antonio.

From there, he moved to Pine Bluff to work first as a mule driver and then as the business manager of the Yell plantation.

[4] In August 1886, Jones secured the charter for the first streetcar line in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

[8] In 1901, Jones founded the Southern Mercantile Company, making his longtime friend Fred Havis president and his brother, James, manager.

[9] He opened a manual training school, the Colored Industrial Institute of Pine Bluff in about 1888.

[10] He played an important role in promoting blacks to office in Pine Bluff and in Jefferson County.