Jack Jones (1884-1970) was a Welsh novelist and playwright.
He was born in Wales and, having served in World War I, followed many professions and stood as a Liberal candidate for Parliament before becoming well-known an author.
His books include Rhondda Roundabout (1934), Bidden to the Feast, Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (based on the life of the composer Joseph Parry) (1947) and Black Parade
His other works include three volumes of autobiography including Unfinished Journey and Me and Mine, and The Man David; a biography of David Lloyd George.
Jack Jones (born January 14, 1938) is an American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.
James Larkin Jones CH MBE (born March 29, 1913), known as Jack Jones, is a former British trade union leader and former General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
Jones was born in Garston, Liverpool. He left school at 14 and worked as an engineering apprentice, then as a dock-worker. He served with the British Battalion of the XV International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and he was seriously wounded at the Battle of Ebro in 1938. On his return to England he became a full-time official of the TGWU in Coventry. During World War II he helped to keep the city's munitions industry working through the Blitz. Jones played a key role in organising the workforce of the West Midlands motor industry in the postwar period as Regional Secretary of the TGWU. During this time he was a strong supporter of the shop steward movement aimed at promoting trade union and industrial democracy. He was an early supporter of the Institute for Workers' Control. While Assistant General Secretary of the union and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, he chaired the Labour Party policy group on Industrial Democracy.
Jones was elected General Secretary of the TGWU in 1968. Together with Hugh Scanlon, President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union he led the left wing trade union opposition to the 1966-70 Labour Government's prices and incomes policy and the efforts of the that government's and the subsequent Conservative Government to introduce legislation to restrict the activities of trade unions and the right to strike.
While General Secretary, he was chief economic spokesman for the Trades Union Congress and one of the authors of the Social Contract. Jones was also instrumental in the creation of the Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service (Acas) in 1975 and was a member of the National Economic Development Council from 1969 to 1978. Jones campaigned for Britain to leave the EEC in the 1975 referendum.
In January 1977 a Gallup opinion poll found that 54% of people believed that Jones was the most powerful person in Britain, ahead of the Prime Minister.blank">http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/E71626243C1040CBB29F8C80BDD4E3F1.pdf
In retirement from the T&G, Jones served as the President of the _National Pensioners Convention, an umbrella organization representing over 1,000 local, regional and national pensioners' groups, of which he is now Honorary Life President. He is also President of the International Brigade Memorial Trust. His biography, Union Man, was published in 1986.
Jones was nominated for the position of Chancellor of the University of London, but lost the election to Princess Anne in 1981.
Jones lives in Denmark Hill in South London.
Jack Jones was a billionaire investment banker and real estate tycoon from Houston, Texas. He is portrayed by Larry Hagman in Oliver Stone's 1995 movie, Nixon.
Jack Jones (born John Wesley Claver Jones)He was born in 1950 was a native of Philadelphia and the first African-American news anchor in the Philadelphia market. He first joined WCAU-TV fresh out of high school as a copy editor. While both continuing his education and working for channel 10 he first became a weekend booth announcer then rising in 1971 to reporter. It was said that John Facenda recognized his talent and mentored him. He eventually rose to the position of 11PM news anchor, but was let go in favor of Ralph Penza in 1976. He then moved to KYW-TV, then WLS-TV in Chicago. He returned to KYW-TV in 1983 and died at the age of 41 on March 5, 1991 of pancreatic cancer.
John Joseph Jones, known as Jack Jones (8 December 1873 - 21 November 1941), was a Labour Party member of the British House of Commons.
Born in Nenagh, Jones moved to London where he worked as a builders' labourer. He joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) and was elected to West Ham Council in 1904.
In the 1906 UK general election, Jones unsuccessfully stood for Camborne. In 1911, he became a trade union organiser, for the National Union of General Workers.
In the Poplar by-election, 1914, Jones stood unsuccessfully for the British Socialist Party (BSP) - the successor of the SDF. As a supporter of World War I, he joined the National Socialist Party split from the BSP, which soon affiliated to the Labour Party. In the 1918 UK general election, he stood against an official Labour candidate in Silvertown - the official candidate being an anti-war supporter of the Independent Labour Party. He became one of several National Socialist Party candidates elected, but the only one who stood for the party, rather than for the Labour Party. Despite this, he took the Labour Party whip in 1919.
Jones was described by TIME Magazine as "the wittiest man in the House of Commons".http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,751099,00.html He held his seat in each election until he resigned in February 1940. He died the following year.
John Henry Jones, known as Jack Jones (26 October 1894 - 31 October 1962), was a British Labour Party politician.
He was elected as Member of Parliament for Bolton from 1945 until the seat was abolished in 1950. He was then elected M.P. for Rotherham at the 1950 general election, and was held the seat until his death in a road accident in 1962.
Jack Jones (Born 7th November 1924) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL.
He played a role in the three premiership teams in the late 1940s.
John William "Jack" Jones (February 8, 1891 - July 20, 1948), was an English professional footballer who played as a left back.
Jones was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. He played 237 games in all competitions for Birmingham, including 191 top flight League games. A former coal miner, he was transferred from Sunderland for a fee of £2,000, and for six seasons formed a formidable full back pairing with Frank Womack. He later played for Nelson, Crewe Alexandra and Scarborough. He returned to live in Rotherham, where he died.
