William Moseley Jones

Infobox Officeholder
name = William Moseley Jones


order = 46th Speaker of the
California State Assembly
term_start = January 1937
term_end = January 1939
predecessor = Edward Craig
successor = Paul Peek
birth_date = July 6, 1905
birth_place = Portsmouth, Ohio
death_date = March 24, 1988
death_place = Newport Beach, California
constituency = Montebello, California
party = Democrat
spouse =
profession = Attorney, Legislator, Banking Executive
religion =


footnotes =

William Moseley Jones (1905 - 1988) was a Democratic attorney from Montebello, California who served several terms in the California Assembly, including one term as Speaker.

Biography

William Moseley Jones was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Occidental College and received a law degree from the University of Southern California in 1927. [ Bio info from "California Blue Book 1938", Office of State Printing, Sacramento, Ca. p. 56.] After practicing law in Los Angeles for five years, Jones was elected to represent the 51st Assembly District (Montebello) in 1932. [ District renumbered 58th District in 2001 reapportionment.] In the 1936 elections, California Democrats gained their first Assembly majority in the 20th Century and elected Jones as Speaker for the 1937 session.

Jones was a Mason, Redmen, Elk, and was President of the Belvedere Gardens Lions Club in the 1930s.

In 1944, Jones helped organize a savings and loan that, in 1953, became Pacfic Savings and Loan. [ "California Financial Journal", "Profiles in Finance," March 1970, page 18.] Jones served as President of Pacific Savings and Loan for many years thereafter. In 1969, Jones was elected President of the California Savings and Loan League. [ "LA Times", March 25, 1988, obituary.]

Jones died at age 82 on March 24, 1988 and is buried at Pacific View Memorial Park in Newport Beach, California. [ "LA Times", March 25, 1988, obituary.]

References

External links

* [http://www.assembly.ca.gov] California Assembly web page
* [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/overview/regents/biographies_j.html] UC Regents historical biographies