Robert Franklin Jones

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Robert Franklin Jones (June 25, 1907–June 22, 1968) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.

Robert F. Jones was born in Cairo, Ohio. He graduated from the Lima Central High School in Lima, Ohio, in 1924 and from Ohio Northern University College of Law at Ada, Ohio, in 1929. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Lima. He was prosecuting attorney of Allen County, Ohio, from 1935 to 1939.

Jones was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on September 2, 1947. He was a member of the Federal Communications Commission from September 1947 until his resignation on September 19, 1952. He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and died in Olney, Maryland, on June 22, 1968. Interment in Lima Memorial Park Cemetery in Lima, Ohio.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Frank L. Kloeb

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 4th congressional district 1939 - 1947

Succeeded by William M. McCulloch