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Born in Virginia, he was the grandson of US congressman William Atkinson Jones. [1] Jones joined the Air Force after graduating from West Point with the class of 1945. By September 1, 1968 was serving as a lieutenant colonel in the 602d Special Operations Squadron, operating out of Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand.
William Atkinson Jones (March 21, 1849 – April 17, 1918) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1918 from the first district of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was author of the Jones Act, which granted independence to the Philippines after a period of U.S. control.
William Jones (philologist) (1746–1794), English judge and philologist who proposed a relationship among Indo-European languages; William Jones (anthropologist) (1871–1909), Native American specialist in Algonquian languages; W. H. S. Jones (William Henry Samuel Jones, 1876–1963), British author, translator and academic
William Henry Jones (1817–1885), William Henry Rich Jones from 1883, was an English Anglican priest, antiquarian and author. Life.
William Alfred Henry III (January 24, 1950 – June 28, 1994) was an American cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. [1] [2] Career.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house.
The Third Battle of Petersburg, also known as the Breakthrough at Petersburg or the Fall of Petersburg, was fought on April 2, 1865, south and southwest Virginia in the area of Petersburg, Virginia, at the end of the 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (sometimes called the Siege of Petersburg) and in the beginning stage of the Appomattox Campaign near the conclusion of the American Civil War.