Andrieus Jones, a public school principal before his election to the U.S. Senate from New Mexico, where he was chairman of the state Democratic Party, first took office during Wilson’s second term. Assigned to chair the Woman Suffrage Committee, he failed in two attempts to pass the Anthony Amendment in the Senate before introducing his own last-minute substitute that neutered federal enforcement. Designed to satisfy supporters of Jim Crow and personally approved by Wilson, that, too, failed.
Source photograph: Bain News Service, publisher; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Bain News Service Photograph Collection.
Date: c. 1922 (1920–25)
Andrieus Jones, a public school principal before his election to the U.S. Senate from New Mexico, where he was chairman of the state Democratic Party, first took office during Wilson’s second term. Assigned to chair the Woman Suffrage Committee, he failed in two attempts to pass the Anthony Amendment in the Senate before introducing his own last-minute substitute that neutered federal enforcement. Designed to satisfy supporters of Jim Crow and personally approved by Wilson, that, too, failed.
Source photograph: Bain News Service, publisher; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Bain News Service Photograph Collection.
Date: c. 1922 (1920–25)