Richard R. "Dick" Jones was a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County, Wyoming, who served in his state's House of Representatives and Senate from 1955 to 1974. He was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in the nationally Democratic year of 1974. A conservative, Jones was allied with the Ronald W. Reagan political faction in Wyoming. His family-owned Dick Jones Trucking Company still operates from Powell; at its peak, it reached into thirty-eight states.

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  • Richard R. "Dick" Jones was a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County, Wyoming, who served in his state's House of Representatives and Senate from 1955 to 1974. He was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in the nationally Democratic year of 1974. A conservative, Jones was allied with the Ronald W. Reagan political faction in Wyoming. His family-owned Dick Jones Trucking Company still operates from Powell; at its peak, it reached into thirty-eight states.
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  • Nancy Jones Cook Alan Jones Tom Jones
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  • Powell, Park County, Wyoming
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  • |Republican Governor Stanley K. Hathaway.
    |Democrat Edgar Herschler in a nationally Democratic year in light of the Watergate affair.
    Over the years, Jones identified himself with the Ronald W. Reagan political faction within the Wyoming GOP.
    (5) Jones attributed his business and political success not to "luck", but "work".
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  • Richard R. "Dick" Jones
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  • Trucking executive
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  • 1) Estes "Jackie" Clarke Jones (married 1932-1984, her death) (2) Evelyn Nelson Jones (married 1987-his death)
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  • 1954 (xsd:integer)
  • 1957 (xsd:integer)
  • 1974 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1950 (xsd:integer)
  • 1955 (xsd:integer)
  • 1957 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1974 (xsd:integer)
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  • Richard R. "Dick" Jones was a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County, Wyoming, who served in his state's House of Representatives and Senate from 1955 to 1974. He was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in the nationally Democratic year of 1974. A conservative, Jones was allied with the Ronald W. Reagan political faction in Wyoming. His family-owned Dick Jones Trucking Company still operates from Powell; at its peak, it reached into thirty-eight states.
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  • Dick Jones (Wyoming politician)
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  • Richard R. "Dick" Jones
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