Background
He was born in Franklin County, Alabama and later served as a state court judge in 1841, in the state house of representatives in 1842 and in the state senate in 1853.
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Henry Cox Jones
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Education
Private school.
Career
His parents were William Stratton and Ann Harris (Cox) Jones. After graduating from La Grange College in 1840, he studied law with Daniel Coleman of Athens, Georgia. Jones was a Democrat and a Methodist.
He had ten children by his October 13, 1844, marriage to Martha Louisa Keyes. Jones was admitted to the Alabama bar in 1841 and the same year became a probate court judge. He also developed a profitable law practice.
In 1843-1844, he represented Florence, Alabama, in the state House. In 1853, he was elected to the state Senate. In the late 1850s, he entered the cotton goods manufacturing business in Florence.
Jones was a Douglas Democrat in 1860 and, as a delegate to the secession convention, refused to vote for or sign the Ordinance of Secession. During the war, he manufactured cottons and woolens under contract from the Confederate government. His factory had one of the most productive operations during the war.
After the war he returned to law practice. In 1876, he was an elector on the Tilden slate in Alabama.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
