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Robert Byron Jones (1833 – July 20, 1867) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from April 1, 1865, to July 1, 1866.

Born in Florida in 1833, Jones served in the Louisiana State Legislature from 1864 to 1865, and was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In 1867, Jones was arrested in Natchitoches, Louisiana, on a charge of having been implicated in the murder of one Cyrus W. Stauffer. While confined in the military prison in the city, he fell ill with cholera, and was released. He died a few hours later, in New Orleans. Jones had a brother who was a doctor who also died of cholera only a few days earlier.

References

1. ^ "Robert Byron Jones (1833 - 1867)". Louisiana Supreme Court. Archived from the original on 2019-06-09. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
2. "Louisiana Supreme Court Justices, 1813-Present". Louisiana Supreme Court. Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
3. ^ Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., The Louisiana Historical Quarterly (1922), p. 120.
4. ^ "Death of Judge Jones", Baton Rouge Tri-Weekly Gazette and Comet (July 25, 1867), p. 3.

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