{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use American English|date=March 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Henry Cox Jones | image = Henry Cox Jones.png | office = Deputy from Alabama<br />to the Provisional Congress<br />of the Confederate States | term_start = April 29, 1861 | term_end = February 17, 1862 | predecessor = Thomas Fearn | successor = ''Constituency abolished'' | birth_date = {{birth date|1821|1|23}} | birth_place = Franklin County, Alabama, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1913|6|20|1821|1|23}} | death_place = Florence, Alabama, U.S. | resting_place = Florence Cemetery,<br />Florence, Alabama, }} '''Henry Cox Jones''' (January 23, 1821 – June 20, 1913) was an American politician who served as a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from April 1861 to February 1862.<ref name="LoC">{{cite book |editor-last=Root |editor-first=Elihu |editor-link=Elihu Root |date=1904 |title=Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 |url=https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcc.html |volume=I |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |page=159 |lccn=05012700}}</ref>

==Biography== Henry Cox Jones was born in Franklin County, Alabama, and later served as a state court judge in 1841, in the state house of representatives in 1842, and in the state senate in 1853. He was elected to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States to replace Thomas Fearn and served in that capacity from April 1861 to February 1862.<ref name="LoC" />

A graduate of LaGrange College, he and his wife Martha Louisa Keyes had 8 children. He was a member of the Democratic Party. <ref>{{cite web |title=Henry Cox James |url=https://civilwartalk.com/threads/jones-henry-cox-c-s-delegate-al.181472/ |website=Civil War Talk |date=January 17, 2021 |access-date=29 January 2025}}</ref>

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