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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 114 items) |
Abstract | George Washington Jones, a native of Tennessee, was Democratic state representative, 1835-1839, and state senator, 1839-1841; clerk of the Lincoln County Court, 1840-1843; United States representative, 1843-1859; Confederate congressman, 1862-1864; and member of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870. The collection includes letters received by Jones from prominent politicians, chiefly in the 1840s and 1870s, including political correspondence, papers pertaining to Tennessee politics and national issues, and a few receipts and other financial documents. Aaron Venable Brown (1795-1859) was a frequent correspondent. Items of interest include an extract from a letter, 20 August 1859, from Howell Cobb of Georgia, opposing the re-opening of the slave trade and government interference in the expansion of slavery into the territories, and a series of letters, 1877-1878, concerning a speech by Jones presented at the unveiling of a statue of Andrew Johnson. There are no papers for the period 1850-1858 or pertaining to the Confederate Congress or the Tennessee state convention of 1870. |
Creator | Jones, George Washington, 1806-1884. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Ellen R. Strong, April 1965
Encoded by: Linda Sellars, August 2004
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2021
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George Washington Jones (1806-1884), a native of Tennessee, was a Democratic state representative, 1835-1839, and state senator, 1839-1841; clerk of the Lincoln County Court, 1840-1843; U.S. representative, 1843-1859; Confederate congressman, 1862-1864; and member of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870.
Back to TopThe collection includes letters received by George Washington Jones from prominent politicians, chiefly in the 1840s and 1870s, including political correspondence, papers pertaining to Tennessee politics and national issues, and a few receipts and other financial documents. Aaron Venable Brown (1795-1859) was a frequent correspondent. Items of interest include an extract from a letter, 20 August 1859, from Howell Cobb of Georgia, opposing the re-opening of the slave trade and government interference in the expansion of slavery into the territories, and a series of letters, 1877-1878, concerning a speech by Jones presented at the unveiling of a statue of Andrew Johnson. There are no papers for the period 1850-1858 or pertaining to the Confederate Congress or the Tennessee state convention of 1870.
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Letters received by George Washington Jones from prominent politicians, chiefly in the 1840s and 1870s, including political correspondence, papers pertaining to Tennessee politics and national issues, and a few receipts and other financial documents. Aaron Venable Brown (1795-1859) was a frequent correspondent. Items of interest include an extract from a letter, 20 August 1859, from Howell Cobb of Georgia, opposing the re-opening of the slave trade and government interference in the expansion of slavery into the territories, and a series of letters, 1877-1878, concerning a speech by Jones presented at the unveiling of a statue of Andrew Johnson. There are no papers for the period 1850-1858 or pertaining to the Confederate Congress or the Tennessee state convention of 1870.
Included are letters from Augustus H. Garland, A. O. P. Nicholson (Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson) (1808-1876), Martha Johnson Patterson, John C. Rogers, Wright Rives, and Edward Sherman. Also included is a list of books of G. W. Jones Esqr.
Folder 1 |
1835-1841 |
Folder 2 |
1842-1844 |
Folder 3 |
1847-1860 |
Folder 4 |
1861-1869 |
Folder 5 |
1870-1877 |
Folder 6 |
1878-1882 |
Folder 7 |
1883-1884 |
Folder 8 |
Undated and fragment |
Reel M-1837/1 |
Microfilm |
Microfilm (M-1837/1)
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