Arthur B. Jenks

Arthur Byron Jenks (* 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arthur Jenks attended the common schools and worked from 1881 as a shoemaker. This profession he remained connected later. Between 1902 and 1930 he was involved in the footwear industry in Manchester. Since 1917 he worked in the same city in banking.

Jenks was a member of the Republican Party. In 1934 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress the first time. 1936 and 1940 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant. In the congressional elections of 1936, he was elected in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats William Nathaniel Rogers on January 3, 1937. His election but was challenged by his rival candidate Alphonse Roy. After this appeal was upheld, Jenks had to give Roy his mandate on June 9, 1938. Because it did in 1938 again elected to Congress, he was on January 3, 1939 Roy displace out of the Parliament. After a re-election in 1940, Arthur graduated from Jenks until January 3, 1943 two coherent legislative sessions in Congress. This time was since December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, overshadowed by the events of the Second World War.

In 1942 and also in 1944, Jenks was not nominated by his party for another term. In the following years until his death in 1947 he worked as a banker in Manchester.