Green Hill Jones
American politician
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| Intro | American politician | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 1842, Tennessee, USA | |
| Death | 1924 (aged 82 years) | |
| Politics: | Republican Party |
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Green Hill Jones (December 24, 1842 - November 12, 1924) was a state legislator and Baptist minister in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for Chicot County in 1885 and 1889, and he was a Republican.
Jones was born in Tennessee and was enslaved on Kenneth Rayner's plantation in Chicot County, Arkansas. During the American Civil War he served in a "Colored" unit in the Union Army. He studied at Hillsdale College in Michigan from 1870 until 1873.
He also served as Chicot County treasurer from 1874 to 1876.
He died November 12, 1924 and is buried at Mason (African American) Cemetery in Chicot County.