Jenkins, Charles Jones, 1805-1883
Variant namesCharles Jones Jenkins was the governor of Reconstruction-era Georgia, 1865-1868. D. McRae was a resident of Telfair County, Ga., in 1865.
From the description of Charles Jones Jenkins letter, 1865. WorldCat record id: 145504076
Lawyer, state legislator, supreme court justice, and governor of Georgia; from Augusta (Richmond Co.), Ga.
From the description of Papers, 1814-1880. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19851615
Charles Jones (C. J.) Jenkins was the governor of Reconstruction-era Georgia from 1865 to 1868. D. McRae was a resident of Telfair County, Ga., in 1865.
From the guide to the Charles Jones Jenkins Letter, 1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
Governor of Georgia and jurist.
From the description of Letters of Charles Jones Jenkins, 1845-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423674
"Charles Jones Jenkins, most noted for his defiance of military authority while governor of Reconstruction Georgia from 1865 to 1868, was also a prominent political figure in the Whig Party during the antebellum period and a justice of the state supreme court during the Civil War (1861-65). Jenkins County, in east central Georgia, is named in his honor. Jenkins was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, on January 6, 1805. The family moved to Georgia in 1816. After two years at Franklin College (later the University of Georgia), he graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1824." -- "Charles Jones Jenkins (1805-1883)", from the New Georgia Encyclopaedia (Accessed March 12, 2009)
"Known as the "Macaulay of the South," Charles C. Jones Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. Also a noted autograph and manuscript collector and an accomplished amateur archaeologist, Jones in later years became a prominent memorialist of the Lost Cause and critic of the New South." -- "Charles C. Jones Jr. (1831-1893)" from the New Georgia Encyclopaedia (Accessed March 12, 2009)
Andrew A. Lipscomb (1816-1890) was Chancellor of the University of Georgia from 1860 to 1874. Lipscomb was also a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church and the founder of the Metropolitan Institute for Young Ladies in Montgomery, Alabama. After leaving the University in 1874, he taught at Vanderbilt and later returned to Athens where he wrote and lectured for the rest of his life. -- From "Andrew A. Lipscomb," University of Georgia Presidents' Exhibit at http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/pexhibit/presiden/lipscom.html
From the description of Charles Jones Jenkins letters, 1874-1880. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 316804526
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associatedWith | Alexander, Peter Wellington, 1825-1886. | person |
associatedWith | Black, Jeremiah S., 1810-1883 | person |
associatedWith | Brannan, John Milton, General, 1819-1892. | person |
correspondedWith | Colcock, Charles Jones, 1831-1893 | person |
associatedWith | Crawford, George Washington, 1798-1872. | person |
associatedWith | Eubank, Henry, fl. 1874. | person |
associatedWith | Georgia. General Assembly. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Georgia. Militia | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Jones, Charles Colcock, 1831-1893. | person |
associatedWith | Lamar, L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus), 1825-1893. | person |
associatedWith | Lipscomb, Andrew A., 1816-1890. | person |
associatedWith | McRae, D., fl. 1865. | person |
associatedWith | Norwood, Thomas M. (Thomas Manson), 1830-1913. | person |
correspondedWith | Orr, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1822-1873. | person |
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Birth 1805-01-06
Death 1883-06-14