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Alexander Caldwell Jones was an American lawyer, journalist, diplomat, and Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War. Presidential pardons for ex-Confederates from Virginia and West Virginia, published in the Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Dispatch , Jan. 10, 1867
Jones joined Martin Luther King Jr. in 1961, splitting from conservative Baptist churches and forming the Progressive National Baptist Convention. He was known for being an outspoken and prophetic critic. In the 1960s, Al Sharpton, a Pentecostal minister at the time, was introduced to Jones. F. D. Washington. Jones became a mentor to Sharpton ...
George Cecil Jones, Jr. (10 January 1873 – 30 October 1960), [1] was an English chemist, occultist, one time member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and co-founder of the magical order A∴A∴. According to author and occultist Aleister Crowley, [2] Jones lived for some time in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, working at a metallurgy ...
Alexander Delos "Boss" Jones (1818–1897), American master carpenter and architect; Alexander C. Jones (1830–1898), American businessman and Confederate soldier; Alexander Jones (classicist), on List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2005; Alexander Jones (officer), on HMS Naiad; Rev. Alexander Jones, general editor of the Jerusalem Bible ...
In 1754, Jones become King's attorney for Fredericksburg. [1] In 1758, he married Mary Taliaferro, the daughter of Colonel John Taliaferro of Spotsylvania County. [1] In 1772, Jones became a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the colonial legislature. [2] [1] Jones was a "cautious patriot" and served on the committee of safety in 1774-75.
Prince Carmen "Rocky" Jones Jr. (1975–September 1, 2000) was an African-American man killed by a police officer in September 2000 in Virginia. [1] Author Ta-Nehisi Coates attended Jones' memorial service, [2] and later wrote at length about Jones' life and death in his 2015 book Between the World and Me, noting that the tragedies of racism are impossible to escape for Black people, even ...
Bob Davis Reynolds Jones [1] was the eleventh of twelve children born to William Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones. In 1883, when Bob was born, Alex Jones, a Confederate veteran, was working a small farm in Dale County, Alabama, but within months the family moved to Brannon Stand west of Dothan.
Between 1834 and 1840, Hamilton read, sorted, and organized his father's letters and other papers, and wrote a two-volume biography titled The Life of Alexander Hamilton. [3] The biography was published in 1840–1841; however, nearly all copies were destroyed in a fire while in the process of binding. [3]