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Created page with "'''Louis Elwood Jenkins''', known as '''Woody Jenkins'' (born 1947) is a conservative politician and a newspaper publisher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served in hi..."
'''Louis Elwood Jenkins''', known as '''Woody Jenkins'' (born 1947) is a [[conservative]] politician and a newspaper publisher in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who served in his state's House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000. He is particularly known for his three unsuccessful races for the [[United States Senate]] -- in 1978 against [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], in 1980 against [[Russell Long|Russell B. Long]], and in 1996 against [[Mary Landrieu]].
Jenkins was a youthful [[Republican]] who worked as a page for state Representatives Morley A. Hudson and Taylor Walters O'Hearn, both of [[Shreveport]], the first members of their party to be elected to the Louisiana House since [[Reconstruction]]. However, he switched affiliation to [[Democrat]] to be elected to the state legislature in 1972. In 1994, after twenty-two years in the state house, now District 66, he returned to the Republican Party and was elected in 1995 as a Republican for his final legislative term in an otherwise heavily Democratic district. In 1996, he narrowly lost the Senate race to Landrieu in the same election in which [[Bob Dole]] of [[Kansas]] was defeated for the presidency by [[Bill Clinton]] of [[Arkansas]]. Jenkins claimed that fraudulent votes cast in [[New Orleans]] in the names of deceased persons provided Landrieu's narrow margin of victory, but the Republican-controlled Senate under [[Trent Lott]] of [[Mississippi]] declined to investigate his charges.
In 1999, Jenkins was defeated in a race for the since disbanded position of Louisiana election commissioner.
In the spring of 2008, Jenkins made an unsuccessful bid in a special election for the [[United States House of Representatives]] to fill the seat in the Sixth District of Louisiana vacated by the retiring Republican Richard Baker. That post is now held by the Republican [[Bill Cassidy]], one of three physicians representing Louisiana in the U.S. House..
In 2012, Jenkins was elected to a four-year term as the chairman of the Republican Party in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Jenkins is particularly known for his strict constructionist views of the [[United States Constitution]]. He was chairman of the Conservative Caucus in the Louisiana House, which began in 1972 with only four members. Jenkins holds both journalism and law degrees from [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge. He operates two community newspapers in East Baton Rouge Parish: the ''Central City News'' and the ''Capital City News''.
Jenkins is married to the former Diane Aker, an attorney and political activist.
[[Category;Louisiana]]
[[Category:Republican Party]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
[[Category:Christians]]
[[Category:Conservatives]].
Jenkins was a youthful [[Republican]] who worked as a page for state Representatives Morley A. Hudson and Taylor Walters O'Hearn, both of [[Shreveport]], the first members of their party to be elected to the Louisiana House since [[Reconstruction]]. However, he switched affiliation to [[Democrat]] to be elected to the state legislature in 1972. In 1994, after twenty-two years in the state house, now District 66, he returned to the Republican Party and was elected in 1995 as a Republican for his final legislative term in an otherwise heavily Democratic district. In 1996, he narrowly lost the Senate race to Landrieu in the same election in which [[Bob Dole]] of [[Kansas]] was defeated for the presidency by [[Bill Clinton]] of [[Arkansas]]. Jenkins claimed that fraudulent votes cast in [[New Orleans]] in the names of deceased persons provided Landrieu's narrow margin of victory, but the Republican-controlled Senate under [[Trent Lott]] of [[Mississippi]] declined to investigate his charges.
In 1999, Jenkins was defeated in a race for the since disbanded position of Louisiana election commissioner.
In the spring of 2008, Jenkins made an unsuccessful bid in a special election for the [[United States House of Representatives]] to fill the seat in the Sixth District of Louisiana vacated by the retiring Republican Richard Baker. That post is now held by the Republican [[Bill Cassidy]], one of three physicians representing Louisiana in the U.S. House..
In 2012, Jenkins was elected to a four-year term as the chairman of the Republican Party in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Jenkins is particularly known for his strict constructionist views of the [[United States Constitution]]. He was chairman of the Conservative Caucus in the Louisiana House, which began in 1972 with only four members. Jenkins holds both journalism and law degrees from [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge. He operates two community newspapers in East Baton Rouge Parish: the ''Central City News'' and the ''Capital City News''.
Jenkins is married to the former Diane Aker, an attorney and political activist.
[[Category;Louisiana]]
[[Category:Republican Party]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
[[Category:Christians]]
[[Category:Conservatives]].