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Isaac Jenkins
1846–1911
United States
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Isaac Jenkins (1846–1911) was an American politician who served in the Florida House of Representatives in the 1880s. Jenkins was born on August 10, 1846, in Leon County, Florida. An African American born into slavery, Leon lived on the farm of his owner, General Robert Butler, until the American Civil War broke out in 1861.
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