Robert G. Jones Senator

Robert Gambrell Jones, known as Bob Jones (born May 9, 1939), is a stockbroker in Lake Charles, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972 and in the State Senate from 1972 to 1976. He is the son of the late Governor Sam H. Jones. In 1975, Jones was an unsuccessful intraparty opponent to Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards, who secured the second of four nonconsecutive gubernatorial terms in the state's first ever nonpartisan blanket primary. In 1978, Jones switched affiliation to the Republican Party, but he never sought office thereafter as a member of the GOP.