About G. Lewis Jones
Lived 1907 – 1971 (aged 64). G. Lewis Jones was a diplomat.
George Lewis Jones Jr. (May 18, 1907 – November 13, 1971) was an American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Tunisia from 1956 to 1959 and the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1959 to 1961.
Biography
G. Lewis Jones was born in Baltimore on May 18, 1907. He attended high school at the Boys' Latin School of Maryland, graduating in 1925. He attended Harvard College, receiving a B.S. in 1929. He spent the 1929–30 school year at Christ's College, Cambridge and the 1930–31 school year at the London School of Economics, though he did not take another degree.
Jones died of cancer in Washington, D.C., on November 13, 1971, at age 64.
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