Background
Paul was born on November 4, 1880 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Paul Jones
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Paul Jones attended the local grammar school, then Yale University. During summers he worked near home, once as a strikebreaker, and once learning accounting in a mine company's front office.
After graduating in 1902, Jones traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended the Episcopal Divinity School. He learned about social action theology, including works of Frederick D. Maurice. Before Jones graduated in 1906, Utah's rugged Missionary Bishop Franklin Spencer Spalding (like himself a clergyman's son) addressed the students. This prompted Jones to volunteer to serve in that diocese.
Career
Paul was forced to resign his see in April 1918 because of his outspoken opposition to World War I. Although in 1929 he was chosen as temporary bishop of Southern Ohio while the next incumbent was being selected, he never again held a permanent diocese. In 1933, presiding bishop James DeWolf Perry restored Jones"s seat, but not his vote, in the House of Bishops. Jones spent the rest of his life advocating for black civil rights, social reform, and economic justice.
He served as a chaplain at Antioch College and was instrumental in founding the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship.
Just prior to his death, he helped resettle Jews displaced by the Nazis and advocated a more understanding United States relationship with Japan.
Connections
Paul married Caroline Bonnell on July 5, 1924.
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Nationality
United States -
Religion
Presbyterian -
Political Party
Republican party