Louis Elwood "Ellie" Jenkins (born January 3, 1947) is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge, and was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000.
Jenkins was born in Baton Rouge, and attended Istrouma High School, where he served as student body president, and was valedictorian. While in high school, Jenkins worked as a radio newsman at WLCS and in college as an announcer at WAFB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Baton Rouge. While a...
more
Louis Elwood "Ellie" Jenkins (born January 3, 1947) is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge, and was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 2000.
Jenkins was born in Baton Rouge, and attended Istrouma High School, where he served as student body president, and was valedictorian. While in high school, Jenkins worked as a radio newsman at WLCS and in college as an announcer at WAFB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Baton Rouge. While at the Louisiana State University School of Journalism, he became the conservative columnist for the LSU student newspaper, The Daily Reveille.
At age nineteen, while still in journalism school, Jenkins and his future wife, the former Diane Aker, started a community weekly newspaper, the North Baton Rouge Journal, which was honored by the Louisiana Press Association for editorial writing.
Jenkins had been a Young Republican since high school. At seventeen, he had been a page for State Representatives Morley A. Hudson and Taylor W. O'Hearn, who...
less
