Walter B. Jones

A Representative from North Carolina. Born in Fayetteville, Hoke County, N. C. , August 19, 1913. Attended Elise Academy, Hemp, N. C. B. S. , North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N. C. , 1934. Businessman. Mayor of Farmville, N. C. , 1949-1953. Member of the North Carolina state general assembly, 1955-1959. Member of the North Carolina state senate, 1965. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Herbert C. Bonner, and reelected to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (February 5, 1966-September 15, 1992). Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred Second Congresses). Died on September 15, 1992, in Norfolk, Va. Interment at Forest Hills Cemetery, Farmville, N. C.