Famous People with Name Jenkins

Peter Jenkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Peter Jenkins: is a Canadian politician. Formerly deputy premier and health minister in the territorial government of the Yukon, he is currently serving as mayor of Dawson City. Jenkins was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the 1996 election in Klondike for the Yukon Party.[3] He defended his seat in the 2000 election, the only Yukon Party member to do so. He assumed the leadership of the party after the election. He held the position as sole MLA and leader until May and June 2002, when Dennis Fentie crossed the floor from the NDP and won the leadership party's leadership, defeating Jenkins and former party president Darcy Tkachuk on the first ballot.

John Theophilus Jenkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Theophilus Jenkins: was a physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island. He represented Charlottetown in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1873 to 1876 and Queen's County in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1883 and from 1884 to 1887 as a Liberal-Conservative member. He was the first native-born physician on Prince Edward Island. He was coroner and health officer for Charlottetown and married Jessie Esther, the daughter of Stephen Rice in 1856. His election to the House of Commons in 1882 was declared invalid after an appeal; Jenkins was elected to the same seat in an 1884 by-election after Frederick de St Croix Brecken resigned his seat to accept an appointment as postmaster for Charlottetown. He was elected to the provincial assembly in 5th Queens in an 1891 by-election held after Patrick Blake ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons and served until 1893.

William Walter Jenkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Walter Jenkins: was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1981. He was a member of the Winnipeg School Board No.1 from 1962 to 1970, and was also involved in Jubilee Lodge #6 of the Carmen's Union and the Weston Shops ex-Servicemen's Association; the Royal Canadian Legion and the Red River Co-operative movement. He was active in the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the New Democratic Party, and often spoke of J.S. Woodsworth and Tommy Douglas as his ideological mentors. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1969, scoring an easy victory in the Winnipeg riding of Logan. He was re-elected in the 1973 election and the 1977 election. He did not serve in the cabinet of Edward Schreyer, but was Deputy Speaker on two occasions and served as party Whip in opposition. In the legislature, he often defended the social rights of workers and the unemployed.

Louis Leoline Jenkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Louis Leoline Jenkins: was a farmer and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He represented 2nd Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1912 to 1915 and from 1924 to 1927 as a Conservative. In 1892, he married Hannah Sarah Holroyd. Jenkins served in the province's Executive Council as a minister without portfolio from 1912 to 1915. He was speaker from 1924 to 1927. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1915, 1919, 1927 and 1931. Jenkins died at the Charlottetown Hospital at the age of 78.

Stephen Rice Jenkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stephen Rice Jenkins: was a physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada. He represented 5th Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1912 to 1919 as a Conservative member. He served as president for the Maritime Medical Association and was president for the Canadian Medical Association in 1928 and 1929. He helped establish the Prince Edward Island Red Cross Society and served as its secretary. He was also president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society and chair of the provincial branch of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Jenkins also served on the Charlottetown school board. He died of pneumonia in Charlottetown in 1929.