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Chris Jones (Arkansas politician)

American politician (born 1976)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Christopher Michael Jones is an American politician who was the Democratic Party nominee for governor of Arkansas in the 2022 election. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, he attended Morehouse College and graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously worked at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, from which he resigned in April 2021. On June 15, 2021, Jones announced that he was entering the Democratic primary for governor of Arkansas. He won the primary but lost the general election to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. On August 1, 2025, Jones filed to run for the Democratic nomination in Arkansas's 2nd congressional district.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chris Jones (Arkansas politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.