George Glenn Jones (12 September 1931-26 April 2013) was an American country singer-songwriter. Born in Saratoga, Hardin County, east Texas, he was raised in Colmesneil and Jasper, and he was raised in a Pentecostal family (he later became a Baptist). He served in the US Marine Corps in San Jose, California from 1951 to 1953, and he began his music career after leaving the military, meeting Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash in the process. His 1959 cover of "White Lightning" launched his career as a singer, and he married fellow country star Tammy Wynette (his third wife) in 1969. His alcoholism compromised his health and led to him cancelling several shows, and he divorced Wynette in 1975 and married a fourth wife in 1983 and became sober in 1989. He died in Nashville in 2013 at the age of 81 from respiratory failure.
Jones, like most other country musicians of his time, was a conservative Republican. In June 2011, he performed a Saturday night concert in Ocean Springs, Mississippi to collect cash for Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Bryant.