Janette Jones

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Janette Jones (August 1931 – October 1989) was a Scottish nationalist politician. A Vice Chair of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been described as one of four women to contribute "in important ways to the party's development".James Mitchell, Scottish National Party leaders

Born into a working-class family in Kilsyth, Jones studied at Kilsyth Academy before marrying and having four children.The Times Guide to the House of Commons (1983), p. 80 She joined the SNP and won a seat on Kilsyth Burgh Council.Dennis Canavan, Let the People Decide, p. 98 She also sat on the SNP's executive, serving as Vice Chairman with responsibility for publicity,Gordon Wilson, SNP: The Turbulent Years, p. 103 and later as vice president of the party.BBC, Guide to the European elections, 1984, p. 189

Jones stood for the SNP in West Stirlingshire in both the February and October 1974 general elections, this second election being her best performance, coming only 367 votes behind the winner. She stood again in 1979, then in Clackmannan at the 1983 general election, and finally Mid Scotland and Fife at the 1984 European Parliament election.

In writing about the leaders of the SNP, James Mitchell acknowledges that, like 20th-century Scottish politics in general, the SNP leadership was male-dominated, but names Jones alongside Margaret Ewing, Isobel Lindsay and Margo Macdonald as the women who contributed "in important ways to the party's development".

Jones died in Strathcarron hospice, Denny in October 1989.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sjNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SFkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2455%2C2537620 |title=Former SNP chief dies |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=9 October 1989 |page=5 |accessdate=24 April 2019}} In 2004, when Winifred Ewing wrote a tribute to her in her own autobiography, describing her as "one of the most loved activists the party ever had".Winnie Ewing, Stop the World, p. 297