Lemuel Jenkins
{{short description|American politician (1789–1862)}}
{{infobox officeholder
|name=Lemuel Jenkins
|state=New York
|district={{ushr|NY|7|7th}}
|term_start=March 4, 1823
|term_end=March 3, 1825
|predecessor=Charles H. Ruggles
|successor=Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck
|birth_date={{birth date|1789|10|20}}
|birth_place=Bloomingburg, New York, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1862|8|18|1789|10|20}}
|death_place=Albany, New York, U.S.
|resting_place=Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York, U.S.
|party=Democratic-Republican
|spouse={{marriage|Gertrude Pearson Huyck|1819}}
{{marriage|Elizabeth Tracy Kidd|1832}}
|children=3, including Charles
|parents=Lemuel Jenkins
Mary Dunham
|profession=Politician, lawyer
}}
Lemuel Jenkins (October 20, 1789 – August 18, 1862) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
Jenkins was born in Bloomingburgh, then Ulster County, now Sullivan County, New York, the posthumous son of Lemuel Jenkins (1740–1789), originally of Edgartown, Massachusetts, and his third wife Mary (Dunham) Jenkins (1759–1809). He was admitted to the bar in October 1815, and practiced in Bloomingburgh. He was District Attorney of Sullivan County from 1818 to 1819. On May 13, 1819, he married Gertrude Pearson Huyck, and their children were Leonine Jenkins (1820–1849), Mary Elizabeth (Jenkins) McGill (born 1821) and Charles Edward Jenkins (born 1822).
Jenkins was elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825. Afterwards he removed to Albany, and resumed the practice of law there. On September 17, 1832, he married his second wife Elizabeth Tracy Kidd.
He died in Albany, New York, and was buried at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.
His son Charles E. Jenkins removed to Milwaukee in 1848, was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1850 and 1851, and Judge of the Milwaukee County Court from 1854 to 1856.
External links
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- [https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA71 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 71 and 448; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=OU_QAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA56 The Ladies' Literary Cabinet] (edition of June 26, 1819; page 56)
- [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/JENKINS/2000-03/0953674797 Jenkins genealogy] at RootsWeb
- [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/isaac-watson-dunham/dunham-genealogy-deacon-john-dunham-of-plymouth-massachusetts-1589-1669-and--hnu/page-13-dunham-genealogy-deacon-john-dunham-of-plymouth-massachusetts-1589-1669-and--hnu.shtml Dunham genealogy] (badly transcribed e-book)
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before=Charles H. Ruggles |
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years=1823–1825
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Category:People from Sullivan County, New York
Category:Politicians from Albany, New York
Category:Burials at Albany Rural Cemetery
Category:Sullivan County district attorneys
Category:Lawyers from Albany, New York
Category:19th-century American lawyers
Category:19th-century New York (state) politicians
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives