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|alma_mater=[[Texas Tech University]]
|alma_mater=[[Texas Tech University]]
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'''Delwin Leoland Jones''' (April 2, 1924<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/delwin-jones/delwinleolandjones|title=Delwin Jones|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=July 27, 2018}}</ref>
'''Delwin Leoland Jones''' (April 2, 1924<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/delwin-jones/delwinleolandjones|title=Delwin Jones|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=July 27, 2018}}</ref> – July 25, 2018)<ref name=obit/> was an [[United States|American]] politician, who, prior to 2011, was the oldest sitting member of the Texas House of Representatives,<ref name=lmt>"Solons feeling the heat", ''Laredo Morning Times'', April 12, 2010, p. 6A.</ref> having represented what became and what remains District 83 based in the area about his native [[Lubbock]]. Jones was originally elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in 1964, when that party held 149 of the 150 seats in the Texas House. Jones was defeated for re-nomination in 1972 by [[cotton]] farmer Pete Laney of Hale Center, later the state House Speaker. Jones returned to the House in 1989 as a [[Republican Party|Republican]].
– July 25, 2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texastribune.org/directory/districts/tx-house/83/|title=Texas House District 83: Dewlwin Jones, R-Lubbock|publisher=texastribune.org|accessdate=March 3, 2010}}</ref> was an [[United States|American]] politician, who, prior to 2011, was the oldest sitting member of the Texas House of Representatives,<ref name=lmt>"Solons feeling the heat", ''Laredo Morning Times'', April 12, 2010, p. 6A.</ref> having represented what became and what remains District 83 based in the area about his native [[Lubbock]]. Jones was originally elected as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in 1964, when that party held 149 of the 150 seats in the Texas House. Jones was defeated for re-nomination in 1972 by [[cotton]] farmer Pete Laney of Hale Center, later the state House Speaker. Jones returned to the House in 1989 as a [[Republican Party|Republican]].
==Background==
==Background==