Daniel Terryll JONES, Congress, NY (1800-1861)

JONES, Daniel Terryll, a Representative from New York; born in Hebron, Tolland County, Conn., August 17, 1800; received a liberal schooling; was graduated from the medical department of Yale College in 1826 and began the practice of his profession in Amboy, Oswego County, N.Y.; moved to Baldwinsville, N.Y., in 1841; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate for renomination in 1854; chairman of the Republican State convention at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1858; resumed the practice of medicine; died in Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, N.Y., March 29, 1861; interment in Riverside Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present