Lemuel Jenkins

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 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lemuel Jenkins was born about six years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Bloomingburg. He completed his preliminary studies. Jenkins studied law. His admission to the bar he received in October 1815 and then began practicing in Bloomingburg. He was a master on the New York Court of Chancery and the first from June 1818 to March 1819 district attorney in Sullivan County.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 Jenkins was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles H. Ruggles on March 4, 1823. Since he gave up for reelection in 1824, he retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress.

Jenkins moved to Albany, where he worked as a lawyer again. He died there during the Civil War on 18 August 1862, 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 13 May 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 years 1850 and 1851 in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was from 1854 to 1856 Judge at the Milwaukee County Court.