[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17681]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        IN MEMORIAM OF EUGENE AUGUSTINE JENKINS, JR. OF MARYLAND

  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I would like to notice the passing this 
week of Eugene Augustine Jenkins, Jr. of Maryland, a loyal Senate staff 
member and legal counsel to several senators over the course of almost 
four decades. Gene Jenkins came to the Senate in 1953 after serving in 
the Air Force as an Assistant Judge Advocate General from 1951 to 1953, 
and after receiving bachelor and law degrees from Georgetown 
University. He worked for Senators J. Glenn Beall and Charles McC. 
Mathiais of Maryland, Senator Winston Prouty of Vermont and Senator 
Roman Hruska of Nebraska.
  During his long years of service, Gene Jenkins garnered a reputation 
not only as a fine lawyer but also as the most meticulous historian and 
archivist that a Senator could hire to prepare their historical records 
and papers. A Senator who hired Gene Jenkins would have to hide the 
fact by hiding Jenkins' office because Jenkins' reputation was so well 
known that if a Senator had hired him, it clearly signaled that the 
Senator was about to retire.
  A member of the family that once owned Jenkins Hill, which we now 
call Capitol Hill, Gene Jenkins not only served the Senate modestly but 
he was a public servant and good citizen in the truest sense, 
dedicating himself to numerous voluntary organizations, including his 
beloved Society of the Cincinnati and the Stewards of Georgetown. He 
was devoted to his church and volunteered for many years with Mother 
Theresa's Sisters of Charity. He will be buried this coming Monday at 
St. Joseph' Parish in southern Maryland, one of the oldest Roman 
Catholic churches in North America, near his family home in Pomfret 
where the Jenkins family has been buried for generations--a final 
resting place befitting a historian. May he rest in peace.

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