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Class Year
1918
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Richard Harold Jenkins, LL.B.
Georgetown, Kentucky
Phi Alpha Delta; Republican Club
"It takes courage to be a lawyer"
That Jenkins has courage is evinced by the fact that he is ever ready and willing to admit that he is from Georgetown. He is a good fellow and will win many clients by his sociability.
-The Kentuckian, 1917
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Richard Harold Jenkins (March 9, 1894 - November 25, 1974) was born in Georgetown, Kentucky to Thomas Johnson Jenkins and Lillian Iles Shropshire. Jenkins attended one year of schooling at the University of Virginia before returning to Kentucky. He received his LL.B. from the University of Kentucky in 1918. Jenkins moved to Washington, D.C. and worked as a managing attorney in the United States Bureau of Trusts. By 1930, Jenkins had moved to Malverne, New York where he began a long career as an attorney for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Jenkins also served as a judge in the Nassau County police court. He married Mary Elizabeth Finley in 1917.
