Biography:

Journalist; political staff member. Born– Apr. 24, 1922, Woodville, Ala. Parents– William Grover Sr. and Amanda Graham (Flanagan) Jones. Married– Vera Jean Baird, May 28, 1950. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1943. U.S. Army, 1942-1945; newspaper reporter and editor; wrote for several Alabama papers; owner of the Walker County Times, 1945-1960; printing and supply business, 1960-1963; administrative aide to U.S. Representative Carl Elliott, 1955-56. Press secretary and campaign aide to Governor George Wallace, 1962-65. Owned and operated Viewpoint Publications, publisher of Alabama and Georgia History textbooks, after 1967; Viewpoint Enterprises, a political consulting firm, after 1969. Member Junior Chamber of Commerce; Jasper Kiwanis; American Legion (Commander, Alabama Department), and other civic organizations. Died January 23, 2015.

Source: Files at Alabama Dept. of Archives and History; obituary

Publication(s): The Wallace Story. Northport, Ala.; American Southern, 1966.