title: Thomas McKissick Jones
text: # Thomas McKissick Jones
  
  Thomas McKissick Jones (December 16, 1816 – March 13, 1892) was a prominent Tennessee politician. He was born in Person County, North Carolina. He later moved to Tennessee and served in the state House of Representatives and the state Senate. He was elected to represent the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862. After the war he served as a state court judge from 1872 to 1873.
  
  