OVERVIEW:
FULL NAME:
Jesse Holman Jones
BORN:
April 5, 1874;
Robertson County, Tennessee
DIED:
June 1, 1956;
Houston, Texas
EDUCATION:
Hill’s Business College
POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat
HIGHLIGHTS:
1913-1917:
Chair, Houston Harbor Board
1917-1919:
Director General, Department of Military Relief, American Red Cross
1932-1933:
Member, Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1933-1939:
Chair, Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1939-1945:
Federal Loan Administrator
1940-1945:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
PORTRAITS:
SOURCES:
BIOGRAPHIES:
Rice University
Texas State Historical Association
UVA Miller Center
PBS
Wikipedia
PAPERS:
University of Texas
Rice University