JONES, James Robert, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Muskogee, Muskogee County,
Okla., May 5, 1939; attended Sacred Heart School, Muskogee, Okla.; graduated,
Muskogee Central High School, 1957; B.A.., University of Oklahoma, Norman,
1961; LL.B., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 1964; served
in United States Army Counterintelligence Corps, captain, 1964-1965; United
States Army Reserve, 1961-1968; admitted to the Oklahoma and District of
Columbia bars in 1964 and commenced practice in Tulsa; legislative assistant to
United States Representative Ed Edmondson, 1961-1964; special assistant to
President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965-1969; resumed the practice of law in Tulsa,
1969-1972; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1984; elected as a
Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1973-January 3, 1987); chairman, Committee on the Budget (Ninety-seventh and
Ninety-eighth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the One
Hundredth Congress in 1986, but was an unsuccessful nominee for the United
States Senate; resumed the practice of law; chairman, American Stock Exchange,
November 1989- 1993; appointed by President Clinton as Ambassador to Mexico and
served from 1993-1997; is a resident of Tulsa, Okla., and Washington, D.C.