Willie Jones (statesman)

Willie Jones (statesman)

Willie Jones (December 24, 1740 – June 18, 1801) was an American planter and statesman from Halifax County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780. Allen Jones, his brother, was also a delegate to the congress.

In 1775 and 1776, Jones was elected to represent Halifax in the North Carolina Provincial Congress. [http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/manual/manual.html#p388] For a brief time in 1776, as the head of North Carolina's "Council of Safety", he was the head of the state's revolutionary government, until Richard Caswell was elected as Governor (see List of Governors of North Carolina).

Thereafter, Jones served in the North Carolina House of Commons and was elected to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 but declined to accept.

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