E. Bradley Jones retired as chairman and chief executive officer of LTV Steel Company in 1984, the same year that LTV merged with Republic Steel. Bradley had joined Republic Steel in 1954, rising through the ranks to executive vice president, president and then, in 1982, chairman and CEO. Born in Cleveland in 1927, he graduated from Yale University in 1950 with a degree in economics, then served with the Corps of Army Engineers and the Counterintelligence Corps. In 1968, he completed Harvard Business School’s advanced management program.

Jones served as a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Musical Arts Association and Playhouse Square Foundation, and as chair of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He was a member of the Ten Plus Executive Committee of United Way Services and vice president of the board of Cleveland’s University School.