Researching Isaac Jones

Born on the family homestead Wetipquin in Somerset County, Maryland, Jones completed preparatory studies and graduated from Washington Academy, where he became assistant tutor before his studies were completed. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Princess Anne, Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1832, 1835, 1840, and 1866.

Jones was elected as a Whig from Maryland's 1st congressional district to the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1843. He took an active part in the Maryland constitutional conventions of 1864 and 1867, and was elected Attorney General of Maryland in 1867. He was later elected judge of the court of arbitration of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1877, and served as director of the Maryland State School for the Deaf in Frederick, Maryland, from 1867 to 1893, and of the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf at Baltimore from 1872 to 1893. He died in Baltimore in 1893, and is interred in Greenmount Cemetery.

Jones began his international career at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh, Morocco where he ran the 100 metres in a personal best time of 11.10 seconds. At the same event he reached the semi finals of the 200 metres.

He competed for Gambia in the 200 metres at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. In round one, he finished third in his heat with a personal best time of 21.54 seconds. In round two, he finished sixth in his heat with a time of 21.78 seconds and failed to advance to the semi finals.

In May 2008, at the 2008 African Championships in Athletics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jones narrowly missing the semi finals of the 200 metres, covering the distance in 21.96 seconds. At the same event he also missed reaching the semi finals of the 100 metres coming sixth in his heat with a time of 11.09 seconds.

Four years later in June 2012, Jones competed in the 200 metres at the 2012 African Championships in Athletics in Porto-Novo, Benin. He finished fifth in his heat with a time of 22.08 seconds. Earlier at the meet, Jones teamed up with Adama Jammeh, Assim Abdoule and Suwaibou Sanneh to race in the 4 × 100 metres relay. They finished fifth in their heat in a national record time of 40.42 seconds. In the final of relay the team was disqualified.