Daniel Terryll Jones was a U.S. Representative

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 from New York

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Born in Hebron, Connecticut

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, Jones received a liberal schooling. He was graduated from the medical department of Yale College

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 in 1826 and began the practice of his profession in Amboy, New York

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. He moved to Baldwinsville, New York

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, in 1841.

Jones was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Thirty-second

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 and Thirty-third

33rd United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1854. He served as chairman of the Republican State convention at Syracuse, New York

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, in 1858.

He resumed the practice of medicine. He died in Baldwinsville, New York

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, March 29, 1861, and was interred in Riverside Cemetery.

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