[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 29, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E449]
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                     IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROBERT JONES

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                           HON. JON C. PORTER

                               of nevada

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 29, 2006

  Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Attorney 
Robert E. Jones, who passed away on January 28 of this year, at the age 
of 93.
  Robert was a resident of Las Vegas for 39 years and a resident of 
Salt Lake City the last 22 years of his life. While living in Las 
Vegas, from 1947 to 1951, he served as the Clark County District 
Attorney. He also was the general counsel for the Clark County Housing 
Authority for 37 years, held a similar post at the Las Vegas Convention 
and Visitors Authority for 14 years and was the first attorney for the 
Colorado River Commission. He became the Convention Authority's first 
attorney in 1958 when the agency was known as the Clark County Fair and 
Recreation Board. There, Robert was credited with putting together 6 
bond questions, 4 of which passed, that helped shape the powerful 
Convention Authority during its formative years.
  Before moving to Las Vegas Robert served as an FBI Special Agent in 
Savannah, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama, from 1940 to 1945. Robert 
is the father of U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones, and the Clark 
County Housing Authority's Jones Gardens was opened and named in his 
son's honor in 1985.
  Mr. Speaker, It is an honor to recognize and pay tribute to Robert 
Jones today, on the floor of the House. He was a great American and he 
will be remembered as a philosophical man whose kindness and 
involvement in the community stands as an example to all of us.

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