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Jones, George Wallace

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born April 12, 1804, in Vincennes, Ind. He served as an aide-de-camp to General Henry Dodge in the Black Hawk war; was chosen colonel of militia in 1832; and subsequently major-general. In 1835 he was elected a delegate to congress from the territory of Michigan, and served two years; and in 1839 was appointed surveyor-general of the northwest. In 1848 he was elected a United States senator from Iowa for six years, and re-elected in 1852 for six years.