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{{Infobox person
|name=James Edward Jones<br>
(Southern Baptist clergyman in Campbellsville, Kentucky)
|image=
|birth_date=December 2, 1934
|birth_place[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
Resident since 1981 of Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky
|death_date=
|death_place=
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|spouse=Martha Elizabeth Bell Jones (married 1956)<br>
Children:<br>Angela, Darlene, and Byron E. Jones
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
}}
'''James Edward Jones''' (born December 2, 1934) is a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], who is also the District 1 magistrate on the Taylor County Fiscal Court.
A native of [[Birmingham, Alabama]], Jones is a son of the late Fred S. Jones and the former Annie Dews. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco]], [[Texas]], but received his bachelor's degree in 1957 from Samford University in Homewood in Jefferson County, Alabama, both Baptist institutions. He holds the bachelor of divinity (1961) and a doctorate of ministry (1982) from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]] in Jefferson County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/><ref name=prabook/>
Prior to his pastorate of Campbellsville Baptist Church, which began in 1981 and extended for more than twenty years, he was the pastor of the Valley View Baptist Church in Louisville from 1964 to 1973 and the Eastern Hills Baptist Church in the capital city of [[Montgomery]], Alabama, from 1973 to 1981.<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=582399|title=James Edward Jones|publisher=prabook.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref>
Jones has served on the board of trustees of Campbellsville University and a member of the CU Church Relations Council, a body established in 1978 by former president [[W. R. Davenport]], when the institution was known as Campbellsville College. Jones was formerly a part-time assistant in the Office of Church and External Relations, an adjunct faculty member in the CU School of Theology. After retiring from Campbellsville Baptist Church, he accepted the pastorate of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phbchurch.wixsite.com/pleasanthillbaptist|title=Pleasant Hill Baptist Church|publisher=phbchurch.wixsite.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> He is a former moderator of the Taylor County Baptist Association, president of the
Kentucky Baptist Convention<ref name=bio/> from 1989 to 1990, and a member of several KBC committees and boards. He has also served on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee from 1983 to 1991 and as chairman of the budget committee from 1990 to 1991.<ref name=prabook/> His mission trips have been to [[Brazil]] (four times), [[Russia]] (twice), [[Venezuela]], [[Kenya]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Poland]], and [[Honduras]]. He is a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association, Kiwanis International (president in 1986), and the Masonic lodge. Beginning in 1982, he was appointed chaplain for the Campbellsville/Taylor County Rescue and Taylor County
Sherriff’s Department.<ref name=prabook/>
Twice Jones has received the Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year" award. In a CU press release university president Michael V. Carter describes Jones, accordingly, “Dr. Jones has a pastor’s heart, a servant’s humility and the passion of an evangelist and missionary. He is one of the fine pulpiteers of Southern Baptist life today. He has demonstrated servant leadership all of his life and continues to do so to this very day as he gives of himself in service to his Lord, his family and his community.” Carter's remarks accompanied the presentation in 2011 to Dr. Jones of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award by Campbellsville University.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=44624|title=Campbellsville University presents Algernon S. Sullivan s|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|date=May 27, 2011|author=Elena Groholske|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref>
On the fiscal court, Jones, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], worked for the completion in 2009 of the $15 million Taylor County Judicial Center in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://courts.ky.gov/courtprograms/judicialconstruction/Pages/Taylor.aspx|title=Judicial Center Construction: Taylor County Judicial Center|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref>
Jones is married to the former Martha Elizabeth Bell (born 1937), who attended school in Chilton County in central Alabama. The couple has two daughters, Angela and Darlene; a son, Byron E. Jones (born 1963), and five grandchildren.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, James Edward}}
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Clergy]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
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{{Infobox person
|name=James Edward Jones<br>
(Southern Baptist clergyman in Campbellsville, Kentucky)
|image=
|birth_date=December 2, 1934
|birth_place[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
Resident since 1981 of Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky
|death_date=
|death_place=
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|spouse=Martha Elizabeth Bell Jones (married 1956)<br>
Children:<br>Angela, Darlene, and Byron E. Jones
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
}}
'''James Edward Jones''' (born December 2, 1934) is a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man in Campbellsville, [[Kentucky]], who is also the District 1 magistrate on the Taylor County Fiscal Court.
A native of [[Birmingham, Alabama]], Jones is a son of the late Fred S. Jones and the former Annie Dews. He attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco]], [[Texas]], but received his bachelor's degree in 1957 from Samford University in Homewood in Jefferson County, Alabama, both Baptist institutions. He holds the bachelor of divinity (1961) and a doctorate of ministry (1982) from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]] in Jefferson County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/><ref name=prabook/>
Prior to his pastorate of Campbellsville Baptist Church, which began in 1981 and extended for more than twenty years, he was the pastor of the Valley View Baptist Church in Louisville from 1964 to 1973 and the Eastern Hills Baptist Church in the capital city of [[Montgomery]], Alabama, from 1973 to 1981.<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=582399|title=James Edward Jones|publisher=prabook.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref>
Jones has served on the board of trustees of Campbellsville University and a member of the CU Church Relations Council, a body established in 1978 by former president [[W. R. Davenport]], when the institution was known as Campbellsville College. Jones was formerly a part-time assistant in the Office of Church and External Relations, an adjunct faculty member in the CU School of Theology. After retiring from Campbellsville Baptist Church, he accepted the pastorate of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phbchurch.wixsite.com/pleasanthillbaptist|title=Pleasant Hill Baptist Church|publisher=phbchurch.wixsite.com|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref> He is a former moderator of the Taylor County Baptist Association, president of the
Kentucky Baptist Convention<ref name=bio/> from 1989 to 1990, and a member of several KBC committees and boards. He has also served on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee from 1983 to 1991 and as chairman of the budget committee from 1990 to 1991.<ref name=prabook/> His mission trips have been to [[Brazil]] (four times), [[Russia]] (twice), [[Venezuela]], [[Kenya]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Poland]], and [[Honduras]]. He is a member of the Taylor County Ministerial Association, Kiwanis International (president in 1986), and the Masonic lodge. Beginning in 1982, he was appointed chaplain for the Campbellsville/Taylor County Rescue and Taylor County
Sherriff’s Department.<ref name=prabook/>
Twice Jones has received the Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year" award. In a CU press release university president Michael V. Carter describes Jones, accordingly, “Dr. Jones has a pastor’s heart, a servant’s humility and the passion of an evangelist and missionary. He is one of the fine pulpiteers of Southern Baptist life today. He has demonstrated servant leadership all of his life and continues to do so to this very day as he gives of himself in service to his Lord, his family and his community.” Carter's remarks accompanied the presentation in 2011 to Dr. Jones of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award by Campbellsville University.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=44624|title=Campbellsville University presents Algernon S. Sullivan s|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|date=May 27, 2011|author=Elena Groholske|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref>
On the fiscal court, Jones, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], worked for the completion in 2009 of the $15 million Taylor County Judicial Center in Campbellsville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://courts.ky.gov/courtprograms/judicialconstruction/Pages/Taylor.aspx|title=Judicial Center Construction: Taylor County Judicial Center|publisher=courts.ky.gov|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}</ref>
Jones is married to the former Martha Elizabeth Bell (born 1937), who attended school in Chilton County in central Alabama. The couple has two daughters, Angela and Darlene; a son, Byron E. Jones (born 1963), and five grandchildren.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, James Edward}}
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Clergy]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]