Newton Jenkins
Newton Jenkins (August 19, 1887 - October 17, 1942) was a Chicago lawyer and a perennial political candidate. Jenkins was born in Oak Hill, Ohio into an immigrant Welsh family; parents were Samuel and Anne Jenkins.[1] He graduated from Ohio State university in 1912 and later Columbia university. Jenkins was a lieutenant marine veteran in France during First World War.
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Politics
He began his career as a grain futures attorney representing farm organizations identifying himself as a Progressive Republican and a political foe of President Herbert Hoover. He ran for Illinois senatorial candidate in four elections starting in 1924. He supported Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior during the Roosevelt Administration. At the time Newton Jenkins was seen as a rising political star and had a chance to be selected by FDR to be Secretary of the Treasury if the position came open.[2]
Newton Jenkins turned aginst the New Deal and in 1935 he ran for mayor of Chicago on a newly formed political party called The Third Party. He spoke at gatherings of German American Bund members and Italian American Fascist groups attempting to win their political support.[3] Jenkins hoped to unite 125 American nationalist organizations into national third-party and supported William Lemke, the Union Party candidate for President in 1936.
Newton Jenkins was the publisher of American Nationalism (first issued July 1937) and knew Francis Parker Yockey.
Family
In 1920 Newton Jenkins married Leila Beatrice Starr. They had three childeren. He died of a heart attack in 1942.[4] Newton Jenkins had three brothers and three sisters; one was Thomas A. Jenkins an Ohio congressman.
Works
- The Third Party: A Manual for Members (1934)
- The New Economic Charter for Chicago (1935)
- The Republic Reclaimed (1938)
- The New Patriotic Book
- I've Got The Remedy (1940) 254 pages
Notes
- ↑ "Chicago Politician found Dead at Home", The Portsmouth Times, October 16, 1942, page 3
- ↑ "Union Head Makes Sure He’s Known" The Pittsburgh Press, August 12, 1933, page 10
- ↑ House of Representatives Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States, page 1208
- ↑ William Thornton: Small Star of the American Enlightenment, by Beatrice Starr Jenkins, page 162
