Jenkins, Lynn, 1963-

Lynn Haag Jenkins (born June 10, 1963) is an American politician and lobbyist. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2019. She previously served as Kansas State Treasurer from 2003 to 2008, in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2001 and the Kansas Senate from 2001 to 2003.

Born Lynn Haag in Holton, Kansas, she was raised on a dairy farm there, where she attended high school. Later she graduated from Kansas State University and Weber State College with an accounting major and an economics minor. While completing her studies, she married Scott Jenkins, who grew up on a farm down the road from her own. The couple settled in Topeka, where Jenkins, a licensed CPA, worked as an accountant. Jenkins and her husband divorced in 2009. In 1997, when her state representative resigned, Jenkins ran in the special election to fill the seat but lost by a single vote. Undiscouraged, she ran in the 1998 general election and won. After serving one term in the state house, she won a seat in the state senate. She resigned halfway through her state senate term to serve as Kansas state treasurer, where she worked to cut taxes, limit spending, and return millions of dollars in unclaimed property to state residents. In 2008, Jenkins was elected to Congress from Kansas's 2nd congressional district after defeating first-term Congresswoman Nancy Boyda.

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