H. Kent Jones

H. Kent Jones (April 26, 1926 to December 17, 1995) was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture from 1981 to 1988. He also served as a state legislator in the 42nd through the 46th legislative assemblies. [http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/55-1997/journals/SR43.pdf]

Biography

Kent Jones was born in Webster Township in Ramsey County, North Dakota in 1926, and he graduated from Devils Lake High School. He obtained a degree in agriculture from NDSU, and became a farmer. He served two terms in the North Dakota House of Representatives, and three in the North Dakota State Senate before being elected as the North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture in 1980. He was re-elected in 1984, but did not win the Republican nomination to the position in 1988, so he ran as an independent but lost. He was married to Kathleen, and had four children; Jeff, Deborah, Becky, and Sara. [North Dakota Blue Book, 1988] He died at the age of 69 in 1995.

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