| 词条 | Rufus E. Jones |
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|name = Rufus E. Jones |image = |state_house = Tennessee |district = 86th |term_start = 1981 |term_end = 1996 |predecessor = Emmitt Ford |successor = Barbara Cooper |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|8|21|mf=yes}} |birth_place=Memphis, Tennessee |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = American |party = Democratic |spouse = Marvis Kneeland-Jones |children = |residence = Memphis, Tennessee |alma_mater = Michigan State University |profession = Grocer |religion = Methodist[1] |website = }} Rufus E. Jones (born August 21, 1940) was an American politician and businessman. Early lifeJones grew up in the Boxtown neighborhood of South Memphis where his father operated Jones Supermarket.[1] As a youngster, he went in the grocery business with his father. Jones and his father also operated another South Memphis grocery store, Jones Big Star.[1][2] He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and Michigan State University. Political careerJones succeeded his childhood friend Emmitt Ford in the Tennessee House of Representatives and served from 1981 to 1996. He was a Democrat.[3] He was succeeded by Barbara Cooper.[4] Jones was the Tennessean delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1996.[5] PersonalHe is married to Marvis Kneeland-Jones, a retired schoolteacher. She was a member of the Memphis State Eight, the first group of African-American students to attend the University of Memphis, five years after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education.[6] References1. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Mitchell|first1=Sybill C.|title=Towne Center at Soulsville vision reflects a grocery store’s past|url=http://www.tsdmemphis.com/business/2829-|accessdate=November 29, 2014|publisher=Tri-State Defender|date=November 21, 2007}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Rufus E.}}{{Tennessee-politician-stub}}2. ^{{cite news|last1=Dries|first1=Bill|title=In Search of an Oasis|url=https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2010/aug/2/in-search-of-an-oasis/|accessdate=November 29, 2014|publisher=Memphis Daily News|date=August 2, 2010}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|title=RUFUS E. JONES|url=http://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/archives/99GA/h86.htm|accessdate=November 14, 2014|publisher=Tennessee General Assembly}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=BARBARA W. COOPER|url=http://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/archives/100GA/h86.htm|accessdate=November 14, 2014|publisher=Tennessee General Assembly}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Jones, Rufus, Jr.|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones7.html|accessdate=November 14, 2014|publisher=The Political Graveyard}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=Marvis Kneeland-Jones|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/marvis-kneeland-jones-41|accessdate=November 14, 2014|publisher=The History Makers|date=July 27, 2010}} 8 : 1940 births|Living people|Politicians from Memphis, Tennessee|Businesspeople from Tennessee|Tennessee Democrats|Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives|Michigan State University alumni|American grocers |
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