In 1918, the municipality was renamed Jones in honor of Congressman William Jones, who authored the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916, which provided for greater autonomy for the Philippines under American colonial rule.
It was named Jones Bridge after former Virginia Rep. William Atkinson Jones, who was the principal author of the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916.
Rep. William Atkinson Jones, (D-Virginia), chair of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, and Sen. John Shafroth, (D-Colorado), chair of the Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico, sponsored the legislation which bears their names.
The southern portion of Echague separated by Cagayan River was created into a municipality named Jones in honor of an American Legislator, William Atkinson Jones, who authored the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916, and was inaugurated on January 1, 1921.
William Atkinson Jones (1849–1918), member of the U.S. House of Representatives
William Shakespeare | William Laud | Tom Jones | William Blake | Tom Jones (singer) | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | Quincy Jones | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | Indiana Jones | William Hogarth | Norah Jones | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | James Earl Jones | George Jones | William Wilberforce | William James |