A DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF JESSE HOLMAN JONES AS WELL AS HIS LIFE

The overall purpose of this research paper is to assess and delineate factualities regarding one Jesse Holman Jones. Jones was born in 1874, and died in 1956. He is known largely as a businessman, a philanthropist and ‘New Deal’ official. His achievements are many, and Jones is a product of an industrious family, and in 1908 he bought part of the Houston Chronicle. Between 1908 and 1918 he organized and became Chairman of the Texas Trust Company and was active in most of the banking and real estate activities of the city. In 1909 he switched his religious affiliation from Baptist to Methodist. By 1912 he was president of the National Bank of Commerce (now Texas Commerce Bank). During this period he made one of his few ventures into oil as an original stockholder in Humble Oil and Refining Company (now Exxon Company). As chairman of the Houston Harbor Board he raised money for the Houston Ship Channel. (Handbook of Texas Online, p.1) Jones was an eclectic kind of individual, particularly when it came top matters of industriousness. During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson asked Jones to become the Director General of ...