Jesse H. Jones RFC Expansion

Jesse Holman Jones

Jesse Holman Jones was a Tennessee-born businessman and politician who supported the development of Houston. Serving successively as head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) and Secretary of Commerce under the F. Roosevelt administration, he managed emergency loans to financial institutions and businesses during the Great Depression to lead economic recovery. During World War II, he poured massive federal funds into building munitions factories and securing strategic materials, serving as the driving force behind the dramatic expansion of Allied wartime production capacity as the "U.S. Loan Administrator."

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Year	Jesse Holman Jones
1874	Birth of Jesse Holman Jones (Period: April 5, 1874, Location: Robertson County, Tennessee, United States (around present-day Springfield))
1890	Establishment of South Texas Lumber Company (Age: 15 years old, Period: Late 1890s to early 1900s, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1895	Beginning of management at uncle's lumber company (Jesse Holman Jones, Age: 20 years old, Period: Around 1895, Location: Hillsboro, Dallas, etc., Texas, United States)
1900	Promotion of Houston Ship Channel construction (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1900s to 1910s, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1908	Entry into Houston Chronicle management (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1908 to 1926, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1910	Political activities surrounding Houston port development (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1910s, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1914	World War I (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1914-1918, Location: Battlefields centered on Europe, United States)
1917	Direction of the Red Cross Military Relief Division during World War I (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1917 to 1919, Location: United States and Europe)
1920	Marriage (Jesse Holman Jones, Mary Gibbs Jones, Age: 46 years old, Period: December 15, 1920, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1927	Recruitment of the 1928 Democratic National Convention to Houston (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1927 to 1928, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1928	Realization of the 1928 Democratic National Convention (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1928, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1932	Large-scale economic support through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Jesse Holman Jones, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1932 to 1939, Location: Washington, D.C. and across the United States) Appointment as Director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Jesse Holman Jones, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1932 to 1933, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1933	New Deal economic policy as Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1933 to 1939, Location: Washington, D.C. and across the United States)
1937	Establishment of Houston Endowment (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1937, Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1939	World War II (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Wartime Administration and Domestic Front of the United States)
1940	Appointment as Secretary of Commerce (Jesse Holman Jones, Age: 66 years old, Period: September 19, 1940 to March 1, 1945, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1941	Wartime industrial mobilization of World War II (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1941 to 1945, Location: Across the United States)
1945	Retirement as Secretary of Commerce (Jesse Holman Jones, Age: 70 years old, Period: March 1, 1945, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1956	Death of Jesse Holman Jones (Age: 82 years old, Period: June 1, 1956)

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The Wilson Family	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Ellen Louise Axson Edith Bolling Galt Wilson James Woodrow
The Roosevelt Administration	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Cordell Hull Claude Augustus Swanson Jesse Holman Jones Robert Houghwout Jackson
Southern politician	George Carter Glass James Francis Byrnes Thomas Terry Connally Claude Denson Pepper Alben William Barkley Byron Patton Harrison John Nance Garner

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