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 JAMES K. JONES

, of Washington, Hempstead County, was born in Marshall County, Miss., September 29, 1839; received a classical education; was a private soldier during the “late unpleasantness” on the losing side; lived on his plantation after the close of the war until 1873, when he commenced the practice of law; was elected to the State senate of Arkansas in 1873; was a member of the State senate when the constitutional convention of 1874 was called; was reëlected under the new government, and in 1877 was elected president of the senate; was elected to the Forty-Seventh Congress; was reëlected to the Forty-Eighth and Forty-Ninth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James D. Walker, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1885; was reëlected in 1890 and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.