Georgia   Biographies
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CHARLES JONES JENKINS

Charles Jones Jenkins was born January 06, 1805, in
Beauford District, South Carolina.  The only son of
Charles Jones Jenkins.  His family removed to Jefferson
County, Georgia in 1816.  He completed his education at
Union College in Schenectady, New York and then studied
the law with John M. Berrien of Savannah.  

Jenkins was elected to the Georgia House of
Representatives in 1830 from Richmond County.  In 1860,
he was appointed Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme
County by Governor Brown.  He held this position until
the War Between the States ended.  He was then elected as
Governor of the State December 19, 1865.  He was ordered
to leave office, October, 1867, by General George Meade,
commander of the U. S. Third Military District, for
refusal to pay the U. S. Government $40,000 for the
convention to rewrite the State Constitution.

When Jenkins left the Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville
he took, $400,000 in State money, the Seal of the
Executive Department, and the executive records of his
term of office.  He deposited the money in a New York
bank, then toured Europe.  He returned to Augusta in 1870
and returned all of the State property to Governor James
M. Smith.

Jenkins died June 14, 1883, when he was seventy-eight
years old.

The State honored Jenkins August 17, 1905, when a new
county was formed from lands of Bulloch, Burke, Emanuel,
and Screven.  

MILLEN is the county seat of Jenkins County, Georgia.


Note: Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, Washington City, Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp.
255-256. APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES "The author
conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named,
would furnish an instructive and pleasing appendage to
his topographical work... Acquainted with the intimate
friends of some of the 'venerable dead,' he has been
furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character... There are in the State ninety counties (book
printed in 1837, presently in 2001, there are 159
counties)..."


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