He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
Ben Jones, the character actor who gained fame as Cooter, the self-proclaimed Southern “redneck” on the hit CBS television series “The Dukes of Hazzard” that aired from 1979 to 1985, and who later served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives... [2468 chars]