Jerry Wayne Jones  is an American businessman who has served as the owner, president, and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) since February 1989,

Jones was born to J.W. Jones and Arminta Jones in Los Angeles, California. His parents owned two Pat’s Super Market locations in North Little Rock’s Rose City neighbourhood.

Jones’s parents relocated to Springfield, Missouri, after Jones graduated, where Pat was president and chairman of Modern Security Life Insurance Co.

The company’s assets increased from $440,299.76 in its first statement in 1961 to $6,230,607 in 1965, billed as a “one in a million” company in an advertisement.

With the company’s success, J.W. Jones and his wife Arminta built the 5,500-acre Buena Vista Ranch in Rogersville, Missouri, east of Springfield, in the Ozark Mountains.

After selling the insurance company in 1971, the couple set aside 400 acres of their ranch to establish Buena Vista Animal Paradise, where tourists could see exotic animals. It is now Wild Animal Safari in Strafford, Missouri, just south of Interstate.

Jerry’s father J.W. Jones died on November 26, 1997, in Missouri, United States. His mother passed away on October 23, 2012.