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Jesse Holman Jones was born on April 5, 1874 in Robertson County, Tennessee, the son of William Hasque Jones, a tobacco farmer, and Anne Holman.
Jesse Jones received his education in the public schools of Robertson County. In 1925, Jones received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Southwestern University, and another from Oglethorpe University in 1941.
Jones first worked on his father's plantation, but after the family moved to Houston, Texas, he began working as a clerk in his uncle's lumber business. Through his shrewd handling of money and management, Jones was general manager of the firm by 1898. Not satisfied with working for someone else, he organized the South Texas Lumber Company four years later. His experience in the lumber business led to a combination of real estate, construction, and banking ventures--all centered in Houston. His firm erected numerous office buildings, and his real estate dealings soon made him a millionaire.
After the financial panic of 1907, Jones quickly moved to fill the void left by the failure of many of his competitors. He became associated with a number of Houston banking institutions, and in 1909 organized the Texas Trust Company. Content to be a back-room politician, and preoccupied with Houston civic affairs as well as his real estate and banking interests, Jones's only public exposure during the eight years of the Wilson administration came with a brief service as director of general military relief for the American Red Cross in 1917-1918.
During the Republican administrations of the 1920's, a difficult period for the Democratic party, Jones was instrumental in preventing the financial collapse of the party. In keeping with his commitment to Houston, he arranged for the Democratic National Convention of 1928 to meet in that city. But it was Republican President Herbert Hoover who brought Jones into public life.
In 1932, in an unsuccessful attempt to gain support from conservative southern Democrats, Hoover appointed Jones as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). The RFC, designed to provide loans to depression-stricken businesses, became something quite different under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed Jones its chairman in 1933. Jones turned the RFC into the largest bank in the nation by forcing banks and many major corporations to accept his terms in order to obtain the funds they so desperately needed. Jones's success as chairman of the RFC and his long-time role as a Democratic party financier were appreciated by Roosevelt.
He was made a member of the National Emergency Council (1933 - 1939) and was appointed chairman of the executive committee of the Export-Import Bank of Washington in 1936. Jones's experience in the Roosevelt administration whetted his political ambitions. He hoped to be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1940, but Roosevelt's decision to seek a third term ended that hope and placed Jones at odds with the president. Jones also, at least temporarily, supported the anti-interventionist movement in foreign policy, an attitude that further removed him from Roosevelt's favor.
Nevertheless, in keeping with his conscious and persistent attempts to create a broad national coalition as the basis of the Democratic party, Roosevelt in 1939 appointed Jones administrator of the Federal Loan Agency, a supervisory organization that controlled the activities of the Federal Housing Administration and the Export-Import Bank. Since Jones retained overall supervision of the RFC, he became enormously powerful. Roosevelt appointed Jones secretary of commerce in 1940.
Always the cautious politician, the president hoped to avoid making more enemies within his party as he sought an unprecedented third term in office. Jones's economic policies were at variance with those of most other members of Roosevelt's cabinet; but the president frequently stated his belief in a competitive bureaucracy, and Jones provided a viewpoint held by large numbers of conservative Democrats.
During World War II he served on a number of boards, including the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board (1941 - 1942); the Economic Defense Board (1941 - 1945), which was later the Board of Economic Warfare; the War Production Board (1942 - 1945); and the Economic Stabilization Board (1942 - 1945). Private disputes were acceptable to Roosevelt, but public ones were not. When Jones and Vice-President Henry A. Wallace feuded angrily over Jones's alleged malfeasance in permitting profiteering in the importing of strategic raw materials during the war, Roosevelt replaced Jones with Wallace (1945).
In January 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt became suspicious of Jones activities and replaced him with the more left-wing Henry Wallace. Jones now returned to Houston where he became a key member of the Suite 8F Group. The name came from the room in the Lamar Hotel in Houston where they held their meetings. Members of the group included Lyndon B. Johnson, George Brown and Herman Brown (Brown & Root), Gus Wortham (American General Insurance Company), James Abercrombie (Cameron Iron Works), William Hobby (Governor of Texas), William Vinson (Great Southern Life Insurance), James Elkins (American General Insurance and Pure Oil Pipe Line) and John Connally (Governor of Texas). Alvin Wirtz and Edward Clark, were also members of the Suite 8F Group.
Jones returned to his home city and spent the remainder of his life publishing the Houston Chronicle.
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Through his contributions to the political coffers of New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson, Jones became a significant force within the Democratic party after Wilson's election as president in 1912. During the Republican administrations of the 1920's, a difficult period for the Democratic party, Jones was instrumental in preventing the financial collapse of the party.
Although Jones never lost either his personal or his financial interest in Houston, his banking interests soon brought him into contact with the financial leaders of New York City and the eastern political establishment.
He firmly opposed government ownership of banks; but he just as firmly opposed the domination of the banking industry by New York City firms, and he worked to broaden the role of banks outside the eastern seaboard.
Jones was a self-made man and an indefatigable worker. A shrewd and effective administrator, he possessed concepts of civic duty and patriotism that never conflicted with his business ethics; all were firmly based on the work ethic and profit motive. His firm loyalty to personal friends and his conservative philosophy probably cost him the nomination for the vice-presidency in 1940. With his separation of private and public ethics, he epitomized the American image of the business community.
On December 15, 1920, Jesse Holman Jones married Mary Gibbs; they had no children.