Alec Jones

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = Alec Jones

| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}}

| image =

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| office = Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

| leader = James Callaghan
Michael Foot

| term_start = 14 June 1979

| term_end = 20 March 1983

| predecessor = John Morris

| successor = Denzil Davies

| office1 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales

| primeminister1 = Harold Wilson
James Callaghan

| term_start1 = 12 June 1975

| term_end1 = 4 May 1979

| predecessor1 = Ted Rowlands

| successor1 = Michael Roberts

| office2 = Under-Secretary of State, Health and Social Security

| primeminister2 = Harold Wilson

| term_start2 = 18 October 1974

| term_end2 = 12 June 1975

| predecessor2 = Robert Brown

| successor2 = Michael Meacher

| office3 = Member of Parliament for Rhondda
{{small|Rhondda West (1967–1974)}}

| term_start3 = 9 March 1967

| term_end3 = 20 March 1983

| predecessor3 = Iorwerth Rhys Thomas

| successor3 = Allan Rogers

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|08|12|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|03|20|1924|08|12|df=y}}

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| nationality = British

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| party = Labour

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Trevor Alec Jones (12 August 1924 – 20 March 1983) was a British Labour Party politician.

Jones was born in Clydach Vale and educated at Rhondda Boys' Grammar School. After obtaining a teaching qualification at Bangor Normal College, he taught from 1947 until 1967, when the death of the local MP, Iorwerth Thomas, whose political agent Jones had been, created a vacancy which resulted in his own selection.

Jones was Member of Parliament for Rhondda West from the 1967 Rhondda West by-election until the constituency was abolished in 1974, and for Rhondda from 1974 until he died in office shortly before the 1983 general election. He was a junior minister for Social Security from 1974 to 1975 and for Wales from 1975 to 1979.

Jones had suffered from a heart condition for some years prior to his death at the age of 58, which occurred at his home in Tonypandy.{{cite web |last=Jones |first=John Graham |title=JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924-1983), Labour politician |url=https://biography.wales/article/s6-JONE-ALE-1924 |website=Welsh Biography Online |publisher=National Library of Wales |access-date=26 August 2018}}

References

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  • Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
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