US Congressman. He was born one of thirteen children (he also had five sisters and seven brothers) to Samuel Evans Jenkins and Ann "Anne" Harries Jenkins in Oak Hill, Ohio. He was educated in local grad schools and high schools and later attended and graduated from Providence University in Oak Hill, Ohio, in 1901. After his local common public education, he worked in the coal mines and taught school for a while when he was still in his teens. He then attended, studied law, and graduated from the prestigious Ohio State University Law Department in Columbus, Ohio, in 1907. He was admitted to the bar that same year and he commenced his practice of law in Ironton, Ohio. On January 19, 1908, he married Mable Alice Wynne in Jackson, Ohio, but the couple had no children. He then served a term as the Prosecuting Attorney of Lawrence County, Ohio, from 1916 to 1920. He then became interested in politics and he ran for a seat as a Member of the Ohio State Senate and was elected to that post in 1922. He served in that position in 1923 and again in 1924. He also served as a Delegate to the Republican State Conventions in 1920 and again in 1924. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected succeeding the outgoing United States Representative Israel Moore Foster. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Ohio's 10th District (Sixty-Ninth Congress and the sixteen succeeding Congresses) from 1925 to 1959. While serving in the United States Congress he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was not a Candidate for renomination due to ill health in 1958. After his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Walter Henry Moeller. During his time in the United States Congress, he also served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from Ohio in 1940, and in 1944. He was also a Member of the Resolutions Committee in 1944. Following his time in politics, he resumed his practice of law until his death. He passed away from a heart ailment on December 21, 1959, at the age of 79, in a sanitarium in Worthington, Ohio, and he was buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Ironton, Ohio. His wife Mabel passed away on June 15, 1964, and she was buried beside her husband.