Arthur B. Jenks

Arthur B. Jenks (1936)

Arthur Byron Jenks (born October 15, 1866 in West Dennis , Barnstable County , Massachusetts , †  December 14, 1947 in Manchester , New Hampshire ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1938 and again from 1939 to 1943 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Arthur Jenks attended the public schools in his home country and worked as a shoemaker from 1881. He remained connected to this profession later. Between 1902 and 1930 he was involved in the Manchester shoe industry. From 1917 he was also active in banking in the same city.

Jenks was a member of the Republican Party . In 1934 he ran for the first time unsuccessfully for Congress . In 1936 and 1940 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions . In the congressional elections of 1936 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of New Hampshire , where he succeeded Democrat William Nathaniel Rogers on January 3, 1937 . His choice was challenged by his opponent Alphonse Roy . After this objection was granted, Jenks had to cede his mandate to Roy on June 9, 1938. But since he was re-elected to Congress in 1938, he was able to oust Roy from parliament on January 3, 1939. After re-election in 1940 Arthur Jenks completed two consecutive terms in Congress until January 3, 1943. This time had been overshadowed by the events of World War II since December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor .

In 1942, as well as in 1944, Jenks was no longer nominated by his party for a further term. In the years that followed, up to his death in 1947, he worked as a banker in Manchester.

Web links

• Arthur B. Jenks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Arthur B. Jenks in the database of Find a Grave (English)