Biography

09/07/1902 - 06/08/1980


JENKINS, George E., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, September 7, 1902 in Cornwall, England; educated in England; employed, Edgar Thompson Steel Works (28 years); property investigator, Allegheny County; elected, council, North Braddock (1939-1948); Democratic Chairman (24 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1948; reelected in 1950, 1952, 1954, 1958, and 1960; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1956, 1962); died, June 8, 1980 in Munhall, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Braddock Cemetery, Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
 


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