Richmond-Columbia County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jenkins, Governor Charles J. June 14, 1883
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The Georgia Enterprise, June 22, 1883
DEATH OF GOV. JENKINS
     Ex-Governor Charles J. Jenkins, died at his residence, near Augusta, on 
the 14th inst. Well may Georgia mourn the loss of her honored son. From the 
Augusta Chronicle & Constitutionalist we get this brief sketch of the life of 
him who is now no more: "Charles J. Jenkins was born in the county of Beaufort,
S. C., on January 6, 1805. His father moved to Jefferson County, Ga., in 1816, 
and Charles the son, was educated partly at the Georgia University and partly 
at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., where he graduated in 1824; afterward 
studied law and opened an office in the city of Augusta, Ga. In 1830, he was 
elected to the legislature, in 1832 was elected Attorney-General of the State, 
which position he resigned before the expiration of his term of office, and 
then he was again returned to the Legislature in 1836, which position he 
continuously held from 1836 to 1850, ranking amongst the ablest and most 
eloquent of the House during all that period, and being speaker thereof whenever
his party was in the majority. In politics he was reared in the Jeffersonian
States Rights School, but supported Harrison for President in 1840, and Clay in 
1844. He was a member of the Union Convention of the State in 1850, and as 
chairman of the committee on resolutions, was the author of the celebrated 
Georgia platform adopted by that body. In 1860 he was appointed one of the 
Judges of the Supreme Court of the State to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 
resignation of Hon. Linton Stephens. This position he held until the close of 
the war. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State called 
under the proclamation of President Johnson in 1865, in which body he acted a 
prominent part, and in the same year was elected Governor of the State without 
opposition under the new Constitution so formed. This position he held until he 
was superseded by Gen. Thos. H. Ruger of the United States Army, who was 
appointed Provisional Governor in 1868 under the reconstruction acts of 
Congress. He also had been one of the most active and influential members of 
the board of trustees of the State University since 1839.

Same issue
     Ex-Governor Charles J. Jenkins is dead. He was a grand old man. He served
more than one generation well, and now he sleeps the sleep of the just. There 
was not a stain upon his life, there are no mysteries in his public record, and 
his fame and his future are secure.  Macon Telegraph.

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