Calvin Jones
Politician
1775 – 1846
Who was Calvin Jones?
Calvin Jones was a North Carolina physician and was among the group of founders of the North Carolina Medical Society. He served from 1802 to 1832 as a trustee of the University of North Carolina. Jones was also elected to the North Carolina House of Commons and as the Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Jones served as adjutant general of the state militia during the period of the War of 1812 and claimed to know Andrew Jackson and Jackson's wife "very well personally" in a letter he wrote to a cousin in 1828.
In 1817 and 1819 he was Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina.
A highway in the Wake Forest area, the N.C. 98 Bypass, was renamed in his honor in 2010.
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- Born
- Apr 2, 1775
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Died
- Sep 20, 1846
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on July 23, 2013
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