Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Jenkins, John J. 
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

TENTH DISTRICT.

Bayfield, Douglas, Burnett, Sawyer, Washburn, Polk, Barron, Chippewa, St.
Croix, Dunn and Pierce counties. Population in 1895—195,362.

JOHN J. JENKINS (Rep.), of Chippewa Falls, was born at Weymouth, England, 
August 20, 1843; received a common school education, and came to Wisconsin with 
his parents in 1852; resided at Bamboo until 1870, when he removed to Chippewa 
Falls, where he has ever since resided, practicing his profession as a lawyer; 
served during the civil war as a member of Co. A, 6th Wis. Inf.; was clerk of 
the Sauk county circuit court from 1867 to 1870, when he resigned; was a member 
of the assembly in 1872, county judge of Chippewa county from 1872 to 1876, has 
been city attorney of Chippewa Falls for five terms; was appointed United 
States attorney of the territory of Wyoming by President Grant in 1876; was 
elected to the house of representatives of the Fifty-fourth Congress in 1894, 
receiving 19,836 votes against 9,054 for E. C. Kennedy, democrat; 1,531 for 
John Holt, prohibition, and 3,855 for William Monroe, populist. In 1896 he was 
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, receiving 28,149 votes, against 14,823 for 
Frederick H. Remington, democrat. Scattering 26.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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