Longtime legislator Rufus E. Jones dies at age 79
State Rep. Rufus E. Jones, who served South Memphis in the Tennessee House of Representatives for 15 years, died Sunday at age 79.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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