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Green Hill Jones

1842–1924

United States

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Green Hill Jones (December 24, 1842 - November 12, 1924) was a state legislator and Baptist minister in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for Chicot County in 1885 and 1889, and he was a Republican. Jones was born in Tennessee and was enslaved on Kenneth Rayner's plantation in Chicot County, Arkansas.

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