Jones was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 27, 1967, to a seat vacated by J. Braxton Craven, Jr.

[1][2] Jones was elected as a Democrat to the 81st Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle.

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

Jones was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 27, 1967, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina vacated by Judge James Braxton Craven Jr.

[1][2] He presided over the criminal proceedings related to Project WestVote, a large federal investigation into vote-buying in western North Carolina.

[1][2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress