page_title: William Atkinson Jones
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: William Atkinson Jones / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: William Atkinson Jones, congressman from Virginia, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, on U.S. Capitol grounds.
context_page_description: William Atkinson Jones was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1918 from the first district of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
context_section_description: His boyhood fell during the American Civil War. His father, a former soldier, lawyer, and a judge entered him as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington in the fall of 1864, where he remained until the evacuation of Richmond, serving as occasion required with the corps of that famous institute in defense of the capital of his State. Thus, as a boy of 16 he did arduous and valiant military service. He was then placed in Coleman's School, at Fredericksburg from which he entered the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in October, 1868. He graduated with distinction in its School of Law in June, 1870. He was also a noted athlete in school.
  He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Warsaw, Virginia.  He became a Commonwealth attorney for several years.
caption: Jones standing before the Capitol Building
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