Senator Floyd Arden Jones View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 10/11/1958

Birth Place: Chariton, Iowa

Birth County: Lucas

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
Senate: 49 (1941) - 52 (1947)

Home County: Clarke

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Son: Alfred E. Jones; GAs 54, 55

Floyd Arden Jones

Clarke County

FLOYD JONES

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Floyd Jones, begs leave to submit the following:

Floyd Jones was born in Chariton, Lucas county, Iowa on November 14, 1899, the son of Arden and Eva Jones.

His parents moved to Clarke county and it was there he grew to manhood. He attended the schools in Osceola. He was married to Elizabeth Tice and to this union one son, Alfred Eugene, was born.

Mr. Jones farmed for fourteen years, served four terms as Clarke county auditor and served in World War I. He was a member of the Osceola school board for ten years. For several years he operated a cafe in Osceola. He was a member of the Methodist church, the American Legion, the Farm Bureau, the Clarke County Board of Supervisors and the Republican party.

In 1940 and 1944, Mr. Jones was elected to the Senate from the Eleventh District, representing Clarke and Warren counties, and served there during the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fiftieth Extra and Fifty-first General Assemblies.

Mr. Jones passed away in Clarinda, Iowa on October 11, 1958. He was preceded in death by his wife and is survived by his son, a daughter-in-law and three grandsons who live in Osceola, Iowa.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly: That in the passing of Floyd Jones, the state of Iowa has lost a valuable and honorable citizen and by this resolution tenders its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of the family.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to each member of the family of the deceased.

J. LOUIS FISHER,

X. T. PRENTIS,

RAYMOND R. GILLESPIE,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

Senate District 11