Mitchell Jenkins

Mitchell Jenkins (born January 24, 1896 in Forty Fort , Luzerne County , Pennsylvania , †  September 15, 1977 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mitchell Jenkins attended Kingston Public Schools and the Wyoming Seminary there . During the First World War he served from 1917 to 1919 in the US Army , in which he rose to first lieutenant. After the war he continued his education at Wesleyan University in Middletown ( Connecticut ). After a subsequent law degree at the New York University School of Law in New York City and his admission as a lawyer in 1924, he began to work in this profession in Wilkes-Barre. From 1938 to 1946 he was the assistant district attorney in Luzerne County. Since 1926 he was a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, in which rose to February 1941 from simple soldier to lieutenant colonel. During the Second World War he served as a colonel in the Army. He later received the rank of retired brigadier general in the National Guard. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party .

In the 1946 congressional election , Jenkins was elected to the Eleventh constituency of Pennsylvania to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat Daniel J. Flood , whom he defeated in the election, on January 3, 1947 . Since he did not run for re-election in 1948, he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1949 . This was shaped by the events of the beginning Cold War .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Mitchell Jenkins practiced law again. In 1949 and 1950 he was once again the assistant district attorney in Lucerne County. He died on September 15, 1977 in Wilkes-Barre.

Web links

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

• Mitchell Jenkins in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Daniel J. Flood	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (11th constituency) January 3, 1947 - January 3, 1949	Daniel J. Flood