Granville E. Jones

Granville E. Jones (October 14, 1900 – March 7, 1959) was a funeral director and Democratic politician from Philadelphia.

Jones was born in 1900 in Baltimore, Maryland. He moved to Philadelphia and graduated from the H. E. Dolan’s College of Mortuary Science, after which he worked as a funeral director. Jones was also president of the Quaker City Funeral Directors Association. In 1948, he was elected to the first of six terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. In 1953, he ran for City Treasurer of Philadelphia, but was unsuccessful. He died in office in 1959 and was buried at Mount Lawn Cemetery in Delaware County.