inventory · entities · updated 2026-07-25
Jesse Jones
entity active p3
Houston businessman appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. A personal acquaintance of Charles Tips; approved the $100,000 RFC loan in principle that was ultimately derailed by attorney William Church's betrayal.
Next action: None.
personthree-rivers-glassrfcfederal-official
Why Track This
The federal official whose loan approval set the RFC-loan sequence in motion — a real historical figure (RFC chairman, later Secretary of Commerce) whose brief appearance here is corroborated by Tips’ own account of personally traveling to Washington to see him.
Current State
Tips describes going “to Washington and got an appointment to see Mr. Jones to try to get a loan to save the Three Rivers Glass Company,” and quotes Jones telling his staff the loan would be “a better moral loan” than any other. The loan was approved subject to conditions that were never fulfilled due to Church’s actions.
Next Action
None.
Notes
Jones is a documented historical figure (RFC chairman 1932-1939, later U.S. Secretary of Commerce) independent of this collection; not independently re-verified here beyond Tips’ account.