Political Figures
- William Jones (judge) (1566–1640), Welsh judge and English Parliament MP
- William Jones (of Treowen), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614
- William Jones (Parliamentarian), Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1647 and 1648
- William Jones (law-officer) (1631–1682), English lawyer and politician
- William Jones (governor) (1753–1822), Governor of Rhode Island, 1811–1817
- William Jones (statesman) (1760–1831), fourth United States Secretary of the Navy and US congressman from Pennsylvania
- William Jones (Chartist) (1809–1873), political radical and Chartist
- William Theopilus Jones (1842–1882), delegate to the US Congress from the Territory of Wyoming, 1871–1873
- William W. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio, 1871–1875 and 1877–1879
- William Atkinson Jones (1849–1918), US congressman from Virginia, 1891–1918
- William Carey Jones (1855–1927), US congressman from Washington, 1897–1899
- William Nathaniel Jones (1858–1934), Welsh Liberal politician, businessman and soldier
- William Jones (Liberal politician) (1860–1915), British Liberal politician
- William Kennedy Jones (1865–1921), British Member of Parliament for Hornsey, 1916–1921
- William Jones (New Zealand politician) (1868–1953), New Zealand politician
- William Moseley Jones (1905–1988), Democratic politician in the California State Assembly
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