Thomas Jenkins (Wisconsin politician)

Thomas Jenkins was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Jenkins was born in March 1801. Later, he settled in what is now Dodgeville, Wisconsin. During the Black Hawk War, Jenkins fought under the command of Henry Dodge. He was wounded in the hip during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1832). Jenkins died in 1866.

Jenkins was a member of the Assembly in 1848. Previously, he had been a member of the Legislature of the Wisconsin Territory and a delegate to the constitutional convention to write the Constitution of Wisconsin. He was a Democrat.