Preceded by 43rd Governor James Johnson |
Charles J. Jenkins 44th Governor of Georgia1865—1868 |
Succeeded by 45th Governor Thomas H. Ruger |
In the 1872 U.S. presidential election, he received two electoral college votes. In that election, Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley died after the election but before the electors convened and so two electors from Georgia cast their votes for Jenkins.
In the state constitutional convention of 1877, delegates unanimously chose Jenkins as president of the convention when they assembled on July 11, 1877.
Charles Jones Jenkins bio |
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