Biographical Sketches:  John J. Jenkins


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 725.

REPRESENTATIVES.  TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Bayfield, Douglas, Burnett, Sawyer, Washburn, Polk, Barron, Chippewa,
St. Croix, Dunn and Pierce counties.  Population in 1900 - 217,650.

JOHN J. JENKINS (Rep.), of Chippewa Falls, born at Weymouth, England,
August 20, 1843; received a common school education, came to Wisconsin
with his parents in 1852; resided at Baraboo until 1870, when he
removed to Chippewa Falls, where he has since resided, practicing his
profession as a lawyer; served during the civil war as a member of Co.
A, 6th Wis. Inf.; 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, city attorney of Chippewa
Falls for five terms; appointed United States attorney of the
territory of Wyoming by President Grant in 1876; elected to the house
of representative of the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh Congress. In the election of 1900 Mr. Jenkins received
29,143 votes against 11,910 for Frank A. Partlow (Dem.), his plurality
being 17,233.