Robert Franklin Jones (June 25, 1907 – June 22, 1968) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.
Robert F. Jones was born in Cairo, Ohio. He graduated from the Lima Central High School in Lima, Ohio, in 1924 and in 1929 from Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, with a law degree. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Lima, Ohio. He served as prosecuting attorney of Allen County, Ohio, from 1935 to 1939.
Jones was elected in 1938 as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He served until his resignation on September 2, 1947. His appointment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by President Harry S. Truman was confirmed by the Senate, and he served as FCC commissioner from September 5, 1947, until his resignation on September 19, 1952.
He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and died in Olney, Maryland, on June 22, 1968. Interment in Lima Memorial Park Cemetery in Lima, Ohio.
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