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Jones, James Kimbrough

soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 29, 1839, in Marshall county, Miss. He served in the confederate army. He removed to Arkansas; commenced the practice of law in 1873; and in that year was elected to the state senate, and was also a member of the senate when the state constitutional convention was called in 1874. He was re-elected under the new constitution, and was president of the senate in 1877. He was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses. In 1885 he was elected to the United States senate; and was re-elected in 1890 and 1897. 1