Theodore "Ted" Jones

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Theodore Lutrell "Ted" Jones
BornMay 1934
Tifton, Georgia
Residence Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Miramar Beach, Walton County
Florida, USA
Nationality American
Alma mater Northwestern State University
University of Mississippi School of Law
Occupation Lawyer; lobbyist
Political party Democrat
Spouse(s)Ethel Roberts Jones, Sally Wonders Jones
ChildrenIncluding: Claude V. Jones Theodore Wonders Jones

Theodore Lutrell Jones, known as Ted Jones (born May 1934), [1] [2] is an attorney and lobbyist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who provided counsel to governors, U.S. representatives, U. S. senators, and presidential candidates. [3]

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Background

In 1960, at the age of twenty-six, [4] Jones received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. He procured his Juris Doctor in 1963 from the University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford, Mississippi. In 1970, he received a Master of Laws from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he has also long maintained a law practice. His legal specialties include taxation, estate planning, insurance, communications, oil and natural gas, rate regulations, federal and state campaign election law, corporate law, and financial transactions. [5]

The Bachelor of Business Administration is a bachelor's degree in commerce and business administration.

Northwestern State University

Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSU) is a public university primarily situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana, with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the University of Louisiana System.

Natchitoches, Louisiana City in Louisiana, United States

Natchitoches is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis as part of French Louisiana, the community was named after the indigenous Natchitoches people.

Jones was briefly the chief of staff to Democratic U. S. Representative Speedy Long of Louisiana's 8th congressional district, since disbanded. Thereafter, he was named counsel for the then newly implemented Medicare program for Governor John McKeithen. He was a special counsel for McKeithen's successor as governor, Edwin W. Edwards. He worked on the 1968 presidential campaign staff for Vice President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, who was defeated by Richard M. Nixon. He has written two books dealing with business and tax planning and foreign tax credits. [3]

Democratic Party (United States) political party in the United States

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Speedy Long American politician

Speedy Oteria Long was a Jena lawyer who was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Central Louisiana from 1965 to 1973. Prior to his tenure in the since disbanded Eighth Congressional District, Speedy Long had been a member of the Louisiana state Senate (1956–1964). After he left Congress, he became the district attorney (1973–1985) for the Jena-based 28th Judicial District. He resumed the practice of law in Jena from 1985 to 2005 but was called back to public service in 1994 when the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed him judge pro tem of the 28th Judicial District Court until a judge could be elected in 1995. He was a member of the popular Long political dynasty, being a member of its conservative wing.

Louisiana's 8th congressional district is a defunct Congressional district and no longer exists after Louisiana lost its eighth Congressional seat in the 1990 U. S. Census. For its entire existence, it was based in Alexandria and included much of the north-central part of the state.

Jones has been special counsel to both the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the Louisiana Tax Commission. He is a former state assistant collector of revenue. For eight years, Jones was the chief lobbyist for the Louisiana state government in Washington, D.C. [5]

Louisiana Public Service Commission

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Jones played in the band of Governor Jimmie Davis and continued to entertain with the remaining band members after Davis's death. At the annual induction ceremonies of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield in 2004, Jones performed and sang Davis' trademark song, "You Are My Sunshine". He was also known for his renditions of Governor Earl Kemp Long giving a stump speech. In 2003, Jones himself considered running for governor but declined after he determined how much his pay would be reduced were he to have been successful. [6]

Jimmie Davis singer and Louisiana governor

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Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame

The Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in located in Winnfield, Winn Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was created in 1987 by an act of the Louisiana State Legislature to highlight the careers of the state's leading politicians and political journalists. Because three governors, Huey P. Long Jr., Oscar K. Allen, and Earl Kemp Long, were born there Winnfield calls itself "the birthplace of Louisiana politics." The museum, which opened in August 1993 on the centennial of Huey Long's birth, is located at 499 East Main Street in a restored Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad depot. Until his death in 2011, each inductee was sketched by the former Shreveport Times cartoonist Preston Allen "Pap" Dean Jr., himself one of the original thirteen honorees.

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Theodore Wonders Jones

Jones and his wife, Sally Wonders Jones (born 1939), have a son, Theodore Wonders Jones (born July 1971), [7] [8] who is also an attorney in Baton Rouge with the Stephens firm. He attended Tulane University in New Orleans on a scholarship [9] and graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, from which in 1998 he received his Juris Doctorate. The junior Jones has managed the financing of long-term debt for the state, various municipalities, and institutions of higher education. Prior to joining Stephens, he was the chief legislative counsel to former U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin, a Democrat-turned-Republican from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. A Republican, the younger Jones formerly practiced corporate and securities law in northern California with two firms, one Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, previously headed by Charles Taylor Manatt, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. [10]

Tulane University private university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Honors

Ted Jones holds honorary doctorates of humanity from both his alma mater Northwestern State University and Nicholls State University in Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. He is an inductee of the NSU "Long Purple Line of Distinguished Alumni" and the former director of the NSU Foundation. [5] In 2007, Jones was himself inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame. [3]

Other residences

The senior Jones also maintains a residence in Miramar Beach, in Walton County on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida. [2] As of December 2013, his Democratic voter registration is in Bogalusa in Washington Parish. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Click Theodore Jones, May 1934". voterportal.sos.la.gov. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Theodore L. Jones". usa-people-search.com. Retrieved December 11, 2013. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. 1 2 3 "Theodore "Ted" Jones". lapoliticalmuseum.com. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ The author is unable to find information on Jones from his birth in 1934 until he entered college c. 1956.
  5. 1 2 3 "Tauzin Consultants: Management Team". tauzinconsultants.com. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ "James Ronald Skains, Political Hall of Fame induction in Winnfield will honor eight". The Piney Woods Journal. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Click Theodore Jones, July 1971". voterportal.sos.la.gov. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  8. ↑ The author is unable to determine if the Joneses have other children besides Theodore Wonders Jones.
  9. ↑ "Scott Dyer, Scholarship Controversy Grows, June 17, 1993". tulanelink.com. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Theodore W. Jones". stephens.com. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
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