Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....JENKINS, JOHN J. 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

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

JOHN J. JENKINS (Rep.), of Chippewa Falls, was born in
Weymouth, England, August 20, 1843; settled in Baraboo,
Wis., in 1852; attended the common schools a few terms;
served during the war in Company A, Sixth Wisconsin
volunteers; cleric of the circuit court of Baraboo, Sauk
county; city clerk and city attorney of Chippewa Falls;
member of assembly from Chippewa county; also county judge;
appointed United States attorney of the Territory of Wyoming
by President Grant in 1870; was elected to the 54th, 55th,
56th, and 57th congresses and re-elected to the 58th
congress, receiving 19,329 votes against 8,261 for Jos. A.
Rene (Dem.), and 1,077 for M. Y. Cliff (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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