Calvin Jones
American politician
Died when: 71 years 171 days (857 months)Star Sign: Aries
Calvin Jones (2 April 1775 – 20 September 1846) was a North Carolina physician and was among the group of founders of the North Carolina Medical Society.
He served from 1802 to 1832 as a trustee of the University of North Carolina.Jones was also elected to the North Carolina House of Commons (from Johnston County in 1799 and 1802, and from Wake County in 1807) and as the Mayor (then called Intendant of Police) of Raleigh, North Carolina (1807–1809).
In 1817 and 1819 he was Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina.Jones served as adjutant general of the state militia during the period of the War of 1812 and claimed to know Andrew Jackson and Jackson's wife "very well personally" in a letter he wrote to a cousin in 1828.
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