Robert Jenkins (Pennsylvania)

Robert Jenkins (* July 10, 1769 in Windsor Forges, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, † April 18, 1848 ) was an American politician. Between 1807 and 1811 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Jenkins attended the public schools of his home and then the Select School of Dr. Robert Smith of Pequea. He later worked in Caernarvon as head of an iron melt. In 1794 he was involved in the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Federalist Party, a political career. In the years 1804 and 1805 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1806 Jenkins was in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaac Anderson on March 4, 1807. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1811 two legislative sessions. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Jenkins is no longer politically have appeared. He died on 18 April 1848 in Windsor Forges.