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+Mitchell Jenkins a 15 year old boy at towanda jr/sr high school he plays basketball and is known by many names jamal, leeroy, mitchell, jeff hawk,the second bob knight, and finally QUEER
-'''Mitchell Jenkins''' (January 24, 1896 – September 15, 1977) was a [[United States|U.S.]] [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[United States House of Representatives|Congressional Representative]] from [[Pennsylvania]].
-Mitchell Jenkins was born in [[Forty Fort, Pennsylvania|Forty Fort, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania]]. He attended the [[Kingston, Pennsylvania]] public elementary schools and the [[Wyoming Seminary]] Upper School during his high school years. He 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.
-Jenkins was admitted to the New York Bar Association in December 1923 and the Pennsylvania Bar Association in January 1924 and commenced practice in [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]]. He served as assistant district attorney of Luzerne County from 1938-1946.
-In April 1917 Jenkins enlisted as a private in the [[United States Army]] and was discharged as a first lieutenant on January 2, 1919. He 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. He served four and a half years during the [[World War II|Second World War]], during which time he was promoted to colonel, and was placed on inactive status on October 5, 1945. He was promoted to brigadier general (retired) in the Pennsylvania National Guard.
-Jenkins was elected as a Republican to the [[Eightieth United States Congress|Eightieth Congress]] (January 3, 1947&ndash;January 3, 1949) and was not a candidate for reelection in 1948 to the [[Eighty-first United States Congress|Eighty-first Congress]]. He once again served as the assistant district attorney of Luzerne County in 1949, and again in 1950. Thereafter he resumed his private law practice in [[Wilkes-Barre]], where he died, aged 81. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in [[Shavertown, Pennsylvania]].
-==References==
-*{{CongBio|J000086}}
-*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jenkins.html The Political Graveyard]
-==External links==
-*{{Find a Grave|7523434}}
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-|state=Pennsylvania
-|district=11
-|before=[[Daniel J. Flood]]
-|after=[[Daniel J. Flood]]
-|years=1947–1949
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-{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
-| NAME              =Jenkins, Mitchell
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-| DATE OF BIRTH     = January 24, 1896
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-| DATE OF DEATH     = September 15, 1977
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-[[Category:1896 births]]
-[[Category:1977 deaths]]
-[[Category:American military personnel of World War II]]
-[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania]]
-[[Category:New York University School of Law alumni]]
-[[Category:Pennsylvania lawyers]]
-[[Category:People from the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area]]
-[[Category:Pennsylvania Republicans]]
-[[Category:United States Army officers]]
-[[Category:Wesleyan University alumni]]