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 JENCKES

JENIFER

to the condition of aflfaix's in Rhode Island, and to answer the questions of the lands of the Priory council. He was councillor, 1680-1712 ; state auditor in 1697 and 1704 ; chairman of a commis- sion which compiled and published the laws of the colony in 1717 ; was again assembly- man, 1700-08, and deputy-governor, 17- 15-31, during which time he was sent to England to bring be- fore the king the boundary disputes between Rhode Is- land, on one hand, and Connecticut and Massachusetts on the other. On his re- turn to Rhode Island he was re-elected deputy-governor, in 1723, serving till 1727. He was elected governor of the state upon the death of Governor Cranston, in 1727, and held office until 1732. While in office he vetoed the act of the assembly to dis- pense with paper currency. He was married to Martha, daughter of John and Mary (Holmes) Brown, and granddaughter of Chad Brown. He died in Pawtucket, R.I., June 15, 1740.

JENCKES, Thomas Allen, representative, was born in Cumbei'land, R.I., Nov. 2, 1818 ; son of Thomas B. and Abigail W. (Allen) Jenckes. He •was prepared for college by the Rev. Adin Bal- lou, and was graduated from Brown university, A.B., 1838, A.M., 1841. He was a tutor in mathematics in Brown, 1839-40, at the same time study- ing law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1840. He was mar- ried, in June, 1842, to Mary Jane, daugh- ter of Belotes Fuller, a native of Attleboro, Mass. He was clerk in the Rhode Island house of representa- tives, 1840-41 ; sec- retary of the land- holders' convention of Rliode Island, in 1841, and secretary of the constitutional convention, in 1842. He served in both houses of the legisla- ture, and in 1855 was appointed a member of the commission to revise the laws of the state. He was a Republican representative in the 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st congresses, 1863-71, serving

as chairman of the committee on patents. He was prominent in urging upon cougress the adoption of the civil service reform, and in carrying through the bankrupt law, and spoke in behalf of both measures before the New York chamber of commerce, and before Cooper Union audiences, and after the close of his congres- sional career he became a prominent lawyer in New York city. He received the honorary de- gree of LL.D. from Brown in 1873. He pub- lished reports on the bankrupt law, civil serv- ice, and the ventilation of the capitol. He died at Cumberland, R.I., Nov. 4, 1875.

JENIFER, Daniel, representative, was born in Charles county, Md., April 15, 1791 ; son of Dr. Daniel and Sarah (Craik) Jenifer ; grandson of Daniel and Elizabeth (Hanson) Jenifer and of Dr. James and Mariamne (Ewell) Craik; great- grandson of Dr. Daniel and (Hanson)

Jenifer ; and a descendant from Andrew Hansen, a native of Sweden, who settled on Kent Island, Md., in 1653. He received a good education and served as a magistrate and as a representative in the Maryland legislature. He was a Whig rep- resentative from Marjdand in the 22d, 24th, 25th, and 26th congresses, serving, 1831-33, and 1835- 41 ; and was U.S. minister to Austria during the administrations of Harrison and Tyler, 1841-45.^ He -was married to Eliza Trippe, daughter of John Campbell of Charles county, Md., and had sons: John Campbell (b. 1813, d. 1846); Daniel of St. Thomas (b. 1814, d. 1843); Col. AValter Hanson, an officer of the U.S.A., C.S.A., and tlie army of the Khedive of Egypt ; James Craik (b. 1825, d. 1868) ; and Daniel. Daniel Jenifer, the represent- ative, died at Port Tobacco, Md., Dec. 18, 1855.

JENIFER, Daniel of St. Thomas, delegate, was born in Charles county, Md., in 1723 ; son of

Dr. Daniel and (Hanson) Jenifer ; grandson

of Samuel and Elizabeth Hanson, and great- grandson of Andrew and Anuika Hanson,

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of Sweden, who settled on Kent Is- land, Md., in 1653. An- drew died there in 16- 55, and his. widow mar- ried A ndre w Hellena. Daniel a delegate from tal congress, 1778-82 ; a vention that framed the

of St. Thomas Jenifer was Maryland to the Continen- member of the con- Federal constitution, and a signer of the instrument, Sept. 17, 1778. He never married, but his brother, Daniel Jenifer (born 1727, died 1795), married Eliza- beth Hanson, who died in 1757, and had a son,