Francis Jones

Francis Jones ( – July 31, 1826) was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.

Early life Jones was born in Tennessee in about 1788. During the Creek War, Jones had his own company of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen.

Jones was elected Solicitor General of the third Tennessee district in 1815.

Jones was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1823, then resumed the practice of his profession in Winchester.

Death Jones died at the age of about 38 on July 31, 1826, in Jefferson County, Alabama, while returning from a session of the state supreme court in Tuscaloosa to his home in Huntsville.