Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....JENKINS, JOHN J.
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. REPRESENTATIVES.

ELEVENTH  CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Barron, Bayfield,
Burnett,  Chippewa,  Douglas, Dunn,  Gates,  Fierce,
Tollc,  St. Croix, Sawyer and Washburn counties.
Population in 1900-217,050.

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; clerk 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 1876; was elected to the
54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses and re-elected
to the 59th congress, receiving 31,275 votes, against
8,637 for Geo. C. Cooper (Dem.), 1,087 for J. S. White
(Pro.), and 810 for W. B. Freil  (Soc. Dem.).

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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