Ed Jones (April 20, 1912–December 11, 1999) was a Democratic Congressman from the state of Tennessee from 1969 to 1988.

Jones was a native of Yorkville, Tennessee. He graduated from the former University of Tennessee Junior College (now the University of Tennessee at Martin) in 1932 and the University of Tennessee in 1934 with degrees in agriculture. He was a long-time farmer who was also an agricultural inspector for the state of Tennessee and later an agricultural agent for the Illinois Central Railroad. He also served in the state Cabinet as Commissioner of Agriculture from 1949 to 1953 under Governor Gordon Browning. Additionally, he was a member of various agriculture-related boards and committees.

In 1969 Jones entered the special election to replace the late Representative Robert A. "Fats" Everett, a long-time Congressman from the Eighth District which included Northwest Tennessee, who had died in office. Jones won the Democratic nomination. The election was unusual in that it was contested not only by the Republicans but also by the American Independent Party of George Wallace, who had done very well in Northwest Tennessee. The three candidates almost split the vote evenly; Jones won with a slight plurality. However, he was never again to face an election this close.

Jones was re-elected to a full term with less opposition in 1970 and 1972, and without real opposition in 1974. In 1972 his district was reapportioned due to the loss by Tennessee of a Congressional seat after the 1970 census; the resulting district was, if anything, even more overwhelmingly Democratic. In 1976, Martin businessman Larry Bates, an associate of high-profile East Tennessee banker Jake Butcher, made a serious effort to defeat Jones in the Democratic primary. Bates, who had a very conservative record as a state representative, ran well to the right of the moderate Jones and spent a large amount of money by the standards of rural West Tennessee at the time, but made no real inroads in Jones' support and was badly defeated. (Bates later moved to Memphis and became a Republican and a right wing radio talk show host.) Jones never faced any truly serious opposition after this and was elected to five more terms, choosing not to stand for re-election to an eleventh term in 1988.

Jones continued to operate his farm near Yorkville until shortly before his death, one of few members of Congress in the late 20th century who was truly a farmer instead of merely listing it as an occupation on paper.