Jenkins, Charles Jones

Life Span
to
Full name
Charles Jones Jenkins
Place of Birth
Beaufort District, SC
Burial Place
Augusta, GA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
3
Family
Charles Jones Jenkins (father), Sarah Seaborn Jones (first wife-died 1849), Emily Gertrude Barnes (second wife) 
Other Education
Franklin College (GA), Union College (NY)
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Political Parties
Democratic
Whig
Government
Governor
State legislature
Other state government
Date Event
Charles Jones Jenkins is inaugurated as the first post-Civil War elected governor of Georgia
In Milledgeville, Georgia becomes the second state to reject the Fourteenth Amendment.
Reconstruction
Date Title
Charles Jones Jenkins to Andrew Johnson, Milledgeville, Georgia, February 15, 1866
How to Cite This Page: "Jenkins, Charles Jones," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/44735.