William Atkinson Jones (March 21, 1849 – April 17, 1918) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1918 from the first district of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

His great-grandfather, Joseph Jones, was a general in the Revolutionary War, a friend of Lafayette, and subsequently postmaster of Petersburg, Virginia by appointment of Thomas Jefferson.

His father, a former soldier, lawyer, and a judge entered him as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington in the fall of 1864, where he remained until the evacuation of Richmond, serving as occasion required with the corps of that famous institute in defense of the capital of his State.

From 1911 to 1918, he served as Chairman of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, which had jurisdiction over areas including the Philippines and Puerto Rico.

[6] [7] His grandson William A. Jones III also pursued a military career, and was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.

[9] His personal and official papers were donated to the Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia and are open for research.

The Philippine Legislature had appropriated funds for the erection of a mausoleum over his tomb in Warsaw, his home town, and a monument in Manila.