Hiram "Doc" Jones

Hiram L. Jones
Hiram L. Jones
	AF Distinguished Svc. Medal Legion of Merit;
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity
Church	United Methodist
Title	Elder

Hiram Lee "Doc" Jones (born 7 November 1937) is an American United Methodist leader and retired US Air Force chaplain.

Personal life

In

1940 United States Census, Jones had two siblings: brother Jim Dand (born 1926 or 1927) and sister Doris Marie (born 1929 or 1930), and the family lived on a farm in rural Madison County, Texas.^[3]

Jones graduated from

Wiley College awarded Jones an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1974.^[4] By January 1997, Jones was an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church.^[6] After his retirement, Jones and his wife moved to Greater Houston in 1999.^[1]

US Air Force

Ranks held^[4]
Date	Insignia & rank
17 June 1970	Captain
1 May 1979	Major
1 January 1984	Lieutenant colonel
1 May 1989	Colonel
1 August 1997	Brigadier general

After joining in 1969, Jones spent that May through July 1985 as a

United States Air Forces in Europe (at Ramstein Air Base) and Air Combat Command (at Langley Air Force Base) from June 1993 – June 1997.^[4]

In June 1997,[4] Jones was made the Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force and assigned to Washington, D.C. In that capacity at the turn of the 21st century, when USA Today made news reporting on Wiccan airmen at a South Carolina Air Force base, Deputy Chief Jones told the investigating US senator—Strom Thurmond—that, "if you can tell us what religion America's religious freedom doesn't cover, we won't let them practice it."^[1]

Jones retired from the Air Force on 1 December 1999.

Air Force Organizational Excellence Awards, and a National Defense Service Medal.^[6]

References

^
ISSN 1074-7109. Archived
from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2020.

^ Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.
^ Sixteenth Census of the United States, United States census, 1940; Madison County, Texas; page 6A, line 30, enumeration district 157-12.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "CHAPLAIN (BRIG. GEN.) HIRAM L. "DOC" JONES". United States Air Force. September 1998. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Hiram L. Jones". Sam Houston State University. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b Peek, Susan (6 January 1997). "United Methodist chaplain promoted to Air Force Brigadier General" (Press release). Nashville, Tennessee: Worldwide Faith News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

External links

Media related to Hiram Lee Jones at Wikimedia Commons

[2002-08-07_Houston_Chronicle-1] 
ISSN 1074-7109. Archived
from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2020.

[Texas,_Birth_Index-2] Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.

[1940-04_US_Census-3] Sixteenth Census of the United States, United States census, 1940; Madison County, Texas; page 6A, line 30, enumeration district 157-12.

[1998-09_USAF_bio-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "CHAPLAIN (BRIG. GEN.) HIRAM L. "DOC" JONES". United States Air Force. September 1998. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2020.

[SHSU-5] "Hiram L. Jones". Sam Houston State University. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

[1997-01-06_WFN-6] Peek, Susan (6 January 1997). "United Methodist chaplain promoted to Air Force Brigadier General" (Press release). Nashville, Tennessee: Worldwide Faith News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

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