William Miller Jenkins

William Miller Jenkins ( born April 25, 1856 in Alliance, Ohio, † October 19, 1941 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma ) was an American politician ( Republican).

Life

Jenkins was from May 1901 to November 1901 Governor of Oklahoma Territory and was dismissed from his post by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on November 30. He trained as a lawyer. In 1893 he was admitted as such and went to Arkansas City, to open up a law firm. He bought a farm in the district of Kay. After his term of office and after a few years in California, he returned to Oklahoma and lived in Sapulpa.

Policy

From 1897 on, he had he held the office of a minister in Oklahoma until 1891. Criticism of his handling of events in a private sanatorium in Norman and the simultaneous death of President William McKinley (probably a conveyor Jenkins ) led to the removal from office by his successor Roosevelt only a few months after Jenkins took office.