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Charles Jones Jenkins (6 January 1805 – 14 June 1883) was Governor of Georgia from 14 December 1865 to 13 January 1868, succeeding James Johnson and preceding Thomas H. Ruger.

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Charles Jones Jenkins was born in Beaufort, South Carolina on 6 January 1805, and he attended the University of Georgia at Atlanta at a young age. After graduating from Union College in New York in 1824, he became a lawyer, and he served as Attorney-General of Georgia from 1831 to 1834. As a member of the US Democratic Party, he supported the Compromise of 1850, and he was Daniel Webster's vice-presidential candidate in 1852. During the American Civil War, Governor Joseph E. Brown appointed him as a justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia, and he was the only candidate for Governor in 1865. In 1868, he left office after refusing to preside over a racially integrated state convention, and he died in 1883 after a failed 1872 run for the presidency.

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