Lemuel Jenkins

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Lemuel Jenkins (born October 20, 1789 in Bloomingburg , New York , † August 18, 1862 in Albany , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lemuel Jenkins was born in Bloomingburg about six years after the War of Independence ended . He completed his preliminary studies. Jenkins studied law . He was admitted to the bar in October 1815 and then began practicing in Bloomingburg. He was a Masters at the New York Court of Chancery and from June 1818 to March 1819 first District Attorney in Sullivan County .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 Jenkins was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles H. Ruggles on March 4, 1823 . Since he on a run again in 1824 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1825 Congress of.

Jenkins moved to Albany, where he returned to practice as a lawyer. He died there during the Civil War on August 18, 1862 and was then buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery .

family

He was the son of Lemuel Jenkins (1740–1789) and his third wife Mary (Dunham) Jenkins (1759–1809). On May 13, 1819, he married Gertrude Pearson Huyck. The couple had three children together: Leonine Jenkins (1820-1849), Mary Elizabeth (Jenkins) McGill (* 1821) and Charles Edward Jenkins (* 1822). His son Charles moved to Milwaukee in 1848 , where he sat in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1850 and 1851 and was a judge on Milwaukee County Court from 1854 to 1856 .

literature

Web links

  • Lemuel Jenkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jenkins parentage on the RootsWeb website
  2. ^ "Dunham Lineage" on the ebooksread.com website
personal data
SURNAME Jenkins, Lemuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomingburg , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1862
Place of death Albany , New York