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Robert Taylor Jones (February 8 1884 – June 11 1958) was the sixth Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and served from 1939 to 1941. Born in Rutledge Tennessee he was a civil engineer and participated in the construction of the Panama Canal. He owned pharmacies in Phoenix and Tucson. He also owned the Jones Western Store in Phoenix and a cattle ranch near Chandler. Jones died in 1958 in Phoenix Arizona and is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park in Phoenix.