Biographical Sketches:  JOHN J. JENKINS


*********************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be
reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other
organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this
material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the
legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given
permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for
free access.  http://www.usgwarchives.net/

File Contributed by Lori Niemuth, dawnlea@ticon.net
*********************************************************************
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. Representatives, p. 1119

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

JOHN J. JENKINS (Rep.), of Chippewa Falls, was born in Weymouth,
England, August 20th, 1843, settled in Baraboo, June 1852, attended
the common schools for a few terms, served during the Civil War in
Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry. Member of the assembly from
Chippewa county, county judge of Chippewa county, appointed United
States Attorney for the Territory of Wyoming by President Grant, march
1876. Elected to the 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th
congresses, receiving 19,002 votes against 5,146 for J. Maguire (Dem.)
and 1,213 for C. W. Swanson (Soc. Dem.).