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BIOGRAPHIES Pike County IL
Frank H. Jones of Springfield, Ills., who succeeds H Clay Evans as first assistant postmaster general, is a native of Illinois and was born at Griggsville, Pike county, March 4, 1834. His father was George W. Jones, clerk of the Illinois appellate court for the Third district so he may be said to have been born to the profession of the law to which be afterward dedicated his life and energies. After graduating from Yale in the class of 1875 be immediately began studying law at first in the office of Higbee and Wilson at Ptttsfield, Ills, and afterward at Columbia law school in New York and the Chicago law school. He graduated from the latter institution and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He then located at Springfield where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, at which be has been more than ordinarily successful
In 1840 Mr. Jones was elected to the Illinois general assembly from the Springfield district, and in the following winter he took a prominent part in the protracted and bitter contest over the election of United States senator, which finally resulted in the selection of General John Palmer. Mr. Jones made the nomination speech for Senator Palmer at the beginning of that struggle, and during the weeks that followed was prominent in the councils of the “noble 101," as their admirers love to call the men who so long maintained an unbroken front in fighting for the man of their choice.
Mr. Jones has won for himself a well deserved reputation as a public speaker, and his discourses show great thoughtfulness and no small skill in the rhetorical graces. He is prominent in Democratic politics in Illinois and is president of the state league of Democratic clubs. He was a delegate to the last Democratic national convention.
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