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Robert Gambrell Jones, known as Bob Jones (born May 9, 1939), is a stockbroker in Lake Charles, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972 and in the State Senate from 1972 to 1976. He is the son of the late Governor Sam H. Jones. In 1975, Jones was an unsuccessful intraparty opponent to Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards, who secured the second of four nonconsecutive gubernatorial terms in the state's first ever nonpartisan blanket primary. In 1978, Jones switched affiliation to the Republican Party,〔"Bob Jones turns Republican", ''Minden Press-Herald'', February 27, 1978, p. 1〕 but he never sought office thereafter as a member of the GOP. ==Background== Jones was born in Lake Charles to Sam Houston Jones (1897–1978) and the former Louise Gambrell Boyer (1902–1996). He had two half-brothers from his mother's first marriage, James G. Boyer and William E. "Bill" Boyer (c. 1931-1999). A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Bill Boyer was a member of the Lake Charles City Council from 1969 to 1974, and then the elected mayor until 1981. He succeeded James Sudduth, who took a position with the Port of Lake Charles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Boyer, William E. (died September 9, 1999) )〕 Robert Jones was a year old when his father became governor in 1940. He therefore spent his early childhood years in the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge. The Joneses returned to Lake Charles in 1944, when James Houston "Jimmie" Davis became governor. Sam Jones resumed his law practice, and young Jones and his sister, Carolyn, grew up in Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish in far southwestern Louisiana. Bob Jones graduated from Lake Charles High School in 1957. (The school was renamed Lake Charles Boston High School when it was desegregated.) Jones obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans. Upon college graduation in 1961, Jones wed the former Sarah Quinn, also from Lake Charles. He was then accepted into the MBA program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jones received his MBA in 1962 and returned to Lake Charles to work in the brokerage business.〔 In the Summer of 1962 he joined regional brokerage firm Kohlmeyer & Co in their Lake Charles office. Kohlmeyer was later absorbed by Thomson McKinnon Securities which later became Prudential Securities, then Wachovia Securities and now Wells Fargo Advisors. Nevertheless, Jones has had the same home phone number and work phone number since 1962. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert G. Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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