Willie Jones (statesman)

Willie Jones (December 24, 1740 – June 18, 1801) was an American planter and statesman from Northampton County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780. For a brief time in 1776, as the head of North Carolina's Committee of Safety, he was the head of their revolutionary government, until Richard Caswell was elected as Governor.

External link

• biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website