11 Facts About Mitchell Jenkins

Mitchell Jenkins was a US Republican Congressional Representative from Pennsylvania.

Mitchell Jenkins was born in Forty Fort, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Mitchell Jenkins attended the Kingston, Pennsylvania public elementary schools and the Wyoming Seminary Upper School during his high school years.

Mitchell Jenkins graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in June 1919 and the New York University School of Law in New York City in June 1923.

Mitchell Jenkins served as assistant district attorney of Luzerne County from 1938 to 1946.

Mitchell Jenkins enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard as a private in January 1926 and rose through the ranks to lieutenant colonel prior to induction into Federal service on February 17,1941.

Mitchell Jenkins served four and a half years during the Second World War, during which time he was promoted to colonel, and was placed on inactive status on October 5,1945.

Mitchell Jenkins was promoted to brigadier general in the Pennsylvania National Guard.

Mitchell Jenkins was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress and was not a candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Mitchell Jenkins served as the assistant district attorney of Luzerne County in 1949, and again in 1950.

Mitchell Jenkins was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Shavertown, Pennsylvania.