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{{Infobox person
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|name=Louis Elwood "Woody" Jenkins
|name=Louis Elwood "Woody" Jenkins
|birth_date=January 3, 1947
|birth_date=January 3, 1947
|religion=[[Christianity]]
|religion=[[Christianity]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|office=Louisiana State Representative for District 66 (East Baton Rouge Parish)
|term_start=May 1972
|term_end=January 2000
|preceded=At-large members:<br>
Irving R. Boudreaux>br>
Richard E. Cheek<br>
Carl V. Dawson<br>
Laurence "Smokey" Delaroderie<br>
Chris Faser, Jr.<br>
Eugene Webb McGehee<br>
Lillian Walker Walker
|succeeded=Mike Futrell
}}
}}
'''Louis Elwood Jenkins''', known as '''Woody Jenkins''' (born January 3, 1947), is a [[conservative]] politician and a community [[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]].
'''Louis Elwood Jenkins''', known as '''Woody Jenkins''' (born January 3, 1947), is a [[conservative]] politician and a community [[newspaper]] publisher in the capital city of [[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 Party|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 [[Democratic Party|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 and seated Landrieu, who still holds the position.
Jenkins was a youthful [[Republican Party|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 [[Democratic Party|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 and seated Landrieu, who still holds the position.