Background
Jones, Daniel Terryll was born on August 17, 1800 in Hebron, Connecticut, United States.
United States representative politician
Jones, Daniel Terryll was born on August 17, 1800 in Hebron, Connecticut, United States.
He received a liberal schooling, and graduated from the medical department of Yale College in 1826.
He began the practice of his profession in Amboy, New New York Jones moved to Baldwinsville, New York, in 1841, where he continued to practice medicine and also served as Postmaster. A well-respected doctor, several prospective physicians studied with him before beginning their own practices.
Elected as a Democrat, representing New York"s twenty-fourth district, to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses, Jones served from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1855.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1854, and resumed the practice of medicine in Baldwinsville. He became a Republican after the party was founded, and in 1858 he was Chairman of the Republican Convention at Syracuse, New New York
Jones died in Baldwinsville, New York, on March 29, 1861 (age 60 years, 224 days). He is interred at Riverside Cemetery, Baldwinsville, New New York
Member United States House