- Jehu Glancy Jones
Jehu Glancy Jones (
October 7 ,1811 –March 24 ,1878 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .J. Glancy Jones was born in
Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania . He attendedKenyon College , studiedtheology and was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal Church in 1835 and withdrew in 1841. He later studied law, was admitted to the bar in Georgia in 1841 and commenced practice atEaston, Pennsylvania . He was district attorney forBerks County, Pennsylvania , from 1847 to 1849. He was a delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1848, 1849, and 1855, and served as president in 1855. He was delegate to theDemocratic National Convention in 1848 and 1856 and served as vice president in 1848.Jones was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852. He was elected to the Thirty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Henry A. Muhlenberg . He was reelected to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Ways and Means during the Thirty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1858. He resignedOctober 30 , 1858, and was appointedUnited States Minister to Austria by PresidentJames Buchanan on December 7, 1858, and served from December 15, 1858, to November 14, 1861. After his service he resumed the practice of law, and died inReading, Pennsylvania , in 1878. Interment in the Charles Evans Cemetery.ources
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