1, 1956, at the age of 82. His remains were interred in Houston's Forest Park Cemetery. The name of Jesse H. Jones is memorialized throughout Houston through many grants from the Houston Endowment. The home of the Houston Symphony is Jesse H. Jones Hall in the Houston Theater District. Texas Southern University founded the Jesse H. Jones School of Business in 1955. After Jones's death the Houston Endowment made donations to Rice University. They established the Jesse H. Jones Chair of Management, and in the 1970s, they granted $10 million to start the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management. The Jesse H. Jones Student Life Center, a recreation facility at the University of Houston–Downtown, was fully funded by the Houston Endowment. Baylor University's central libraries includes the Jesse H. Jones Library. The Jesse H. Jones Physical Education Complex on the campus of Texas Lutheran University in Seguin bears his name. Jones contributed money to the Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center for a new home for its library. This building is known as the Jesse H. Jones Library Building. The Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Pavilion (1977) connects Memorial Hermann Hospital to the University of Texas Medical School. Other Jones buildings include the Houston Public Library's Central Library building and the Great Jones Building, the former home of Texaco and briefly the location of Jones's office. Beyond buildings, one may visit the Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center in Humble. Since 1998, the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston has presented the Jesse H. Jones Award. References Bibliography Further reading Schwarz, Jordan A. The New Dealers: Power politics in the age of Roosevelt (Vintage, 2011) pp 59-95. online White, Gerald T. "Financing Industrial Expansion for War: The Origin of the Defense Plant Corporation Leases" Journal of Economic History 9#2 (1949), pp. 156–183 online External links Guide to the Jesse H. Jones Family and Personal Papers, 1841-2000 (Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas) 1874 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Businesspeople from Houston People from Robertson County, Tennessee Reconstruction Finance Corporation United States Secretaries of Commerce 1940 United States vice-presidential candidates Houston Chronicle people Franklin D. Roosevelt administration cabinet members 20th-century American politicians People from Terrell, Texas American bankers Real estate and property developers Timber industry American Red Cross personnel Businesspeople from Dallas American philanthropists American hoteliers Texas Democrats American newspaper publishers (people)