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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.

In 1999, Jenkins was defeated by a fellow Republican, Suzanne Haik Terrell, in a race for the since disbanded post of Louisiana elections commissioner, a position which had been created in the late 1950s by then Governor Earl Kemp Long.

In 1999, Jenkins was defeated by a fellow Republican, Suzanne Haik Terrell, in a race for the since disbanded post of Louisiana elections commissioner, a position which had been created in the late 1950s by then Governor [[Earl Long]].

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 Republican Richard Baker, who resigned for business reasons. That post is now held by the Republican [[Bill Cassidy]], one of three physicians representing Louisiana in the U.S. House..

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 Republican Richard Baker, who resigned for business reasons. That post is now held by the Republican [[Bill Cassidy]], one of three physicians representing Louisiana in the U.S. House..