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Posted by: Barry Kolar on Oct 21, 2019

Former House State and Local Government Committee Chair Rufus Jones has died, The Tennessee Journal reports. He was 79. Jones represented his Memphis district from 1981 to 1996 before embarking on a lobbying career. He was succeeded in the House by Rep. Barbara Cooper (D-Memphis), who said in a statement that “Rep. Jones was a tireless public servant who always gave back and worked hard to open doors for the people of South Memphis.”