John Jenkins (British politician)

John Hogan Jenkins (1852 – 1936) was a Welsh trade unionist. A shipwright by trade, he was born in Pembroke Dock but spent most of his life in Cardiff.^[1] He was firstly a Liberal-Labour and then Labour Party^[2]^[3] politician.

He was elected at the 1906 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham in Kent,^[5] but was defeated at the January 1910 election by the Conservative Party candidate. He did not stand for Parliament again.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b J. H. Stewart Reid. The Origins of the British Labour Party. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 81. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
^ Morgan, Kenneth O. "Labour's Early Struggles in South Wales: Some New Evidence, 1900-8". National Library of Wales journal. 1972, Winter Volume XVII/4. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
^ Craig lists Jenkins as a Labour Party candidate in 1906. The 1907 Liberal Party Yearbook lists him as LRC (Labour), as does the Labour Annual of 1908. Kenneth O Morgan describes him as Liberal-Labour before he stood for election in 1906.
^ "Details of Past Congresses" (PDF). TUC. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
^ ^a ^b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 94. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

Trade union offices
Preceded by Frank Delves	President of the Trades Union Congress 1895	Succeeded by John Mallinson
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Horatio Davies	Member of Parliament for Chatham 1906 – January 1910	Succeeded by Gerald Hohler

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