Thomas Victor Jones

Background

Jones, Thomas Victor was born on July 21, 1920 in Pomona, California, United States. Son of Victor March and Elizabeth (Brettelle) Jones.

Education

Student, Pomona Junior College, 1938-1940; Bachelor with distinction, Stanford University, 1942; Doctor of Laws (honorary), George Washington University, 1967.

Career

He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northrop Corporation. He went to work at Douglas Aircraft Company in 1942. He worked for the Brazilian Air Ministry to create the Aeronautical Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1951.

Around 1953 he went to work for the Research and Development Corporation where he published a study on transport planes for the United States. Air Force.

That same year he joined Northrop as assistant to the chief engineer, rose to be the president in 1959, chief executive officer in 1960 and chairman of the board in 1963. He was on the cover of Time magazine on October 27, 1961.

He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1999. He retired as chief executive of Northrop in 1989 after being reprimanded by the board of directors for his role in a bribery scandal surrounding the marketing the F-20 fighter to South of Korea.

Personal life

They had two children, Peter Thomas and Ruth Marilyn.

They turned the estate into a vineyard, by planting a terraced vineyard in 1978. In 2013, it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the News Corporation, after he saw an advertisement in a newspaper he owns, The Wall Street Journal. On January 7, 2014, Thomas V. Jones died of pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Los Los Angeles

He was 93.

Achievements

• Thomas Victor Jones has been listed as a noteworthy aerospace company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Los Angeles World Affairs Council, California Nature Conservancy. Trustee Institute for Strategic Studies, London. Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (honorary).

Member Los Angeles Chamber of C., Navy League United States (life), Aerospace Industries Association, University Southern California Associates, Town Hall, National Academy Engineering Clubs: California. The Beach (Santa Monica). Georgetown, California Yacht, Bohemian.

Connections

Married Ruth Nagel, August 10, 1946. Children: Ruth Marilyn, Peter Thomas.

Father:

Victor March Jones

Mother:

Elizabeth (Brettelle) Jones

Spouse:

Ruth Nagel

child:

Peter Thomas Jones

child:

Ruth Marilyn Jones