Almet Francis Jenks

Almet Francis Jenks was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

Almet Francis Jenks was born in Brooklyn on May 21, 1853. He graduated from Yale University in 1875, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and earned a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia University in 1877. He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1896 to 1921, and was Presiding Justice and Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Dept. In 1916, he ran on the Democratic and Independence League tickets for Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals but was defeated by Republican/Progressive Frank H. Hiscock.
Jenks died in Greenwich, Connecticut on September 18, 1924.
His son Almet Francis Jenks Jr. was author of The Huntsman at the Gate and The Second Chance.