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Apr 20, 1809 Davidson County, Tennessee, United States Died on 29 Oct 1859 (aged 50)
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About James C. Jones
- James Chamberlain Jones (April 20, 1809 – October 29, 1859) was an American politician who served as the Governor of Tennessee from 1841 to 1845, and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1851 to 1857.
- A Whig, Jones twice defeated rising politician James K.
- Polk for the governorship (in 1841 and 1843).
- He was the first native-born Tennessean to be elected governor.Jones's first gubernatorial term was marked by gridlock with the state senate, which was led by a group of Democratic senators known as the "Immortal Thirteen." His second term was more productive, as his fellow Whigs controlled both houses of the legislature.
- Though he later joined the Democratic Party, Jones's speaking skills and campaign style helped to solidify Tennessee's Whigs as one of the strongest Whig movements in the South.
