Walter Jones, Jr. (1776-1861), was the son of TJ’s old friend, Virginian physician and congressman Walter Jones. Tutored in classical literature by Scotsman James Ogilvie, Jones went on to study law under Bushrod Washington. After a few years of legal practice in Fairfax and Loudoun counties, he relocated to Washington. In late 1801, TJ appointed Jones the U.S. attorney for the district of Potomac, followed in 1804 by his appointment as attorney for the District of Columbia, a post he held until 1821. Jones was a local civic leader, a commissioner of bankruptcy, a founding member of the American Colonization Society, and for many years a commander of the local militia. Above all was his long and influential legal career. With “unsurpassed, if not unequalled” litigating skills and an “encyclopedic knowledge of the law,” Jones sat as counsel on a number of prominent court cases (ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, New York and Oxford, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ; Roger K. Newman, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law [New Haven, 2009], 302; Alexandria Times; and District of Columbia Daily Advertiser, 25 June 1802; Edward Lillie Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, 4 vols. [Boston, 1877], 1:135; Vol. 33:678).