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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> – 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 James Earl "Pete" Laney (born March 20, 1943) of Hale Center, later the state House Speaker. Jones returned to the House in 1989 as a [[Republican Party|Republican]] midway into the second nonconsecutive administration of [[Governor]] [[Bill Clements]]. In addition to Clements, Jones served under five other governors, [[John Connally, [[Preston Smith]], [[Ann Richards]], [[George W. Bush]], and [[Rick Perry]].
'''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 James Earl "Pete" Laney (born March 20, 1943) of Hale Center, later the state House Speaker. Jones returned to the House in 1989 as a [[Republican Party|Republican]] midway into the second nonconsecutive administration of [[Governor]] [[Bill Clements]]. In addition to Clements, Jones served under five other governors, [[John Connally]], [[Preston Smith]], [[Ann Richards]], [[George W. Bush]], and [[Rick Perry]].
==Background==
==Background==