{{Short description|American politician (1861–1937)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{More citations|date=June 2025}} '''Samuel A. Jones''' (May 16, 1861 in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York – January 25, 1937) was an American politician from New York.
==Life== He graduated from Oxford Academy in 1885. Then he studied law for two years, but abandoned this and became a merchant in Norwich instead. In 1886, he married Clara B. Barstow, and they had two children. He was Postmaster of Norwich from 1892 to 1899.
Jones was a member of the New York State Assembly (Chenango Co.) in 1914. He was a member of the New York State Senate (37th D.) in 1915 and 1916; and was Chairman of the Committee on Affairs of Villages.
He died in the Chenango Memorial Hospital following a heart attack.<ref>"Funeral services for Samuel A. Jones", ''Press and Sun-Bulletin'' (January 27, 1937), p. 27.</ref>
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==Sources== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=H3FIAAAAYAAJ&q=new+berlin+may+16 ''New York Red Book''] (1916; pg. 99)
{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ny-hs}} {{succession box | before = Walter A. Shepardson | title = New York State Assembly <br>Chenango County | years = 1914 | after = Bert Lord}} {{s-par|us-ny-sen}} {{succession box | before = Ralph W. Thomas | title = New York State Senate <br>37th District | years = 1915–1916 | after = Adon P. Brown}} {{s-end}}
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