{"id":32508,"date":"2026-08-10T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32508"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:05:35","slug":"dukes-of-hazzard-star-ben-jones-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32508","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dukes of Hazzard\u2019 Star Ben Jones Dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Ben Jones, best known for playing Cooter Davenport on \u201cThe Dukes of Hazzard,\u201d has died at 84. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to his wife, Alma Viator, Jones died Sunday after suffering a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Jones became a beloved TV figure through his role as Cooter, appearing in <strong>141 episodes<\/strong> of the hit series from 1979 to 1985.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">He later entered politics and served <strong>two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">His wife remembered him as a man who lived a \u201cfull and happy life\u201d and was deeply loved by many.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest in peace, Ben Jones. You will be missed. \u2764\ufe0f<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Jones, best known for playing Cooter Davenport on \u201cThe Dukes of Hazzard,\u201d has died at 84. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f According to his wife, Alma Viator, Jones died Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Jones became a beloved TV figure through his role as Cooter, appearing in 141 episodes of the hit series from 1979 to 1985&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=32508\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Dukes of Hazzard\u2019 Star Ben Jones Dies at 84&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32510,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions\/32510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}