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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaVirginia Ellis JENCKES
(1877-1975)
JENCKES, Virginia Ellis, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Terre Haute, Vigo County,
Ind., November 6, 1877; attended the public and high schools;
engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1912; secretary of Wabash
Maumee Valley Improvement Association, 1926-1932; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the two succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; United States
delegate to the Interparliamentary Union in Paris, France, in 1937;
after leaving Congress, remained in Washington, D.C., for many
years and worked for the American Red Cross; returned to her native
Terre Haute, Ind., in the early 1970s; died in Terre Haute, Ind.,
January 9, 1975; interment in Highland Lawn Cemetery.
Bibliography
”Virginia Ellis Jenckes” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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