Woodrow W. Jones

Woodrow W. Jones

Woodrow Wilson Jones (born January 26, 1914 in Green Hill, North Carolina, died November 25, 2002 in Rutherfordton, North Carolina) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina. He was born in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, NC and attended the public schools of Rutherford County, NC. He graduated from Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC in 1934 and graduated from Wake Forest University Law School, Wake Forest, NC in 1937. After being admitted to the bar, Jones practiced law and served as city attorney for Rutherfordton, NC from 1940 to 1943 and was a prosecuting attorney of Rutherford County, in the Recorder’s Court, from 1941 to 1943. After returning from three years in the Navy during World War II, he was elected as a member of the North Carolina state House of Representatives 1947 and served two years before being elected as a Democrat to the 81st Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle.

Congressional career

Jones was reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (November 7, 1950-January 3, 1957) but was not a candidate for renomination to the 85th Congress in 1956. He was a delegate to all Democratic State Conventions from 1940 to 1960, and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960. He was the chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Executive Committee from 1958-1960 and was appointed by Governor Luther Hodges as a member of the state constitution commission, which he served on from 1958 to 1960. He was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as district judge of the United States courts for the Western District of North Carolina and served as senior district judge from 1968-1985. He retired to Rutherfordton where he died in 2002 and was buried in Rutherfordton City Cemetery.

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