Michael Hutchinson Jenks

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Michael Hutchinson Jenks (May 21, 1795 - October 16, 1867) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Michael H. Jenks was born at Bridgetown Mills, Pennsylvania, near Middletown, Pennsylvania. He served as commissioner of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from 1830 to 1833, and treasurer from 1833 to 1835. He moved to Newtown, Pennsylvania, in 1837, and served as associate judge of the court of common pleas of Bucks County from 1838 to 1843.

Jenks was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844. He was engaged in the real estate business and as general business agent from 1845 to 1865, and served as chief burgess of Newtown from 1848 to 1853. He died in Newtown in 1867. Interment in the Newtown Friends Meeting Cemetery.

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• Michael Hutchinson Jenks at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Robert Ramsey

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district 1843 - 1845

Succeeded by Jacob Erdman