{{Short description|Mexican politician}} {{family name hatnote|Jones|Jones|lang=Spanish}} {{Other people|Jeffrey Jones}}
'''Jeffrey Max Jones''' (born 25 April 1958) is a Mexican [[politics|politician]].
He graduated from [[Brigham Young University]] in International Relations in 1982.<ref name="sil-lviii">{{cite web|url=http://sil.gobernacion.gob.mx/Librerias/pp_PerfilLegislador.php?Referencia=1230|title=Perfil: Sen. Jeffrey Max Jones Jones, LVIII Legislatura |publisher=[[Secretariat of the Interior|SEGOB]] |website=Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) |access-date=6 January 2021|language=es}}</ref> He is a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] and the [[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]] (PAN) of Mexico since 1995. He served in the [[Chamber of Deputies]] from 1997 to 2000, representing [[First Federal Electoral District of Chihuahua|Chihuahua's first district]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Perfil: Dip. Jeffrey Max Jones Jones, LVII Legislatura |url=http://sil.gobernacion.gob.mx/Librerias/pp_PerfilLegislador.php?SID=&Referencia=535 |publisher=[[Secretariat of the Interior|SEGOB]] |website=Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) |accessdate=22 August 2024}}</ref> He was then elected as a member of the [[Senate (Mexico)|Senate]] in the year 2000, representing the state of Chihuahua. He served as president of the Border Affairs committee and member of the [[agriculture]] and [[agrarian reform]] committees.<ref name="sil-lviii"/> His six-year term expired in 2006 since there is no immediate reelection for senators in Mexico.
Jones served from 2006 to 2009 as Undersecretary of [[Agribusiness]] Development with the [[Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Mexico)|Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development]] and focused on three areas: prospective planning, market development, and finance. In 2009, he caused controversy by stating in a public statement that Mexican farmers should learn from drug traffickers how to run their businesses. After that, he resigned from his position.
Jones was born and grew up in [[Colonia Dublán]], Nuevo Casas Grandes, northwestern Chihuahua, and lives in the birth home of former [[Governor of Michigan]] [[George W. Romney]]. He is bilingually fluent in English and Spanish, and the triple-great grandson of [[Daniel Webster Jones (Mormon)|Daniel Webster Jones]], an influential early settler of Utah and the [[Arizona Territory]].
==References== {{Reflist}} https://www.jornada.com.mx/2009/10/30/politica/016n1pol
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20031231025457/http://www.senado.gob.mx/gaceta.php?&lg=59&lk=30%2F6_comunicaciones%2Fjones_p.htm Profile of Senator Jeffrey Max Jones] on the Senate website (in Spanish). *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050824183622/http://morgannews.us/pol.html Famous Mormon legislators]. *Elizabeth Stuart, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110321141714/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700120025/Jeffrey-Max-Jones-dreaming-of-a-better-Mexico.html "Jeffrey Max Jones: Dreaming of a Better Mexico"], March 20, 2011, ''[[Deseret News]]''
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https://www.jornada.com.mx/2009/10/30/politica/016n1pol