Edward A. Jones

In 1970, he was appointed by President Léopold Sédar Senghor as the honorary Consul to Senegal and in 1977 he became the editor of the College Language Association Journal (CLA).

In 1968, Jones received the Ford Foundation Sabbatical Research fellowship, during which he published several books and articles. He was elected into Phi Beta Kappa in 1960 and was listed in the Outstanding Educators in America in 1972.

Jones began his teaching career at Edward Waters College. Thereafter, he embarked upon a distinguished forty-year career as professor of French and the Fuller E. Callaway chair of the department of Modern Foreign Languages at Morehouse College. As a researcher, Jones received the Corson French Prize at Cornell University in 1942 and was a Romance Language and Literature Scholar at Cornell from 1942 to 1943. In 1944, he was elected into Phi Kappa Phi chapter.

In 1929, Jones studied at Grenoble University in France where he received a Certificate d’Etudes Francais (with special mention). The following year Jones was awarded a fellowship to study at Middlebury University by the General Education Board.

Jones received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College in 1926, where he was the school's valedictorian. He received his master's degree from Middlebury College in 1930 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1943.

E.A. Jones was born to George and Carrie Jones of Indianpola, Mississippi. He entered a prep academy at the age of fifteen in 1918 where he began the study of Latin and Greek languages.

Edward Allen Jones (1903-1981) was an African-American linguist, scholar and diplomat. He is best known for his book A Candle in the Dark: A History of Morehouse College.