Biography

10/14/1900 - 03/07/1959

JONES, Granville E., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, October 14, 1900 in the city of Baltimore, Md.; graduated, H. E. Dolan’s College of Mortuary Science, Philadelphia; embalmer (24 years); secretary, 30th Ward Democratic Executive Committee; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1949 term; reelected to the House for 5 more consecutive terms; died while in office, March 7, 1959 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lawn Cemetery, Sharon Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.