Clay S. Jenkinson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Clay S. Jenkinson
Occupation	American Author
Date Of Birth	Feb 4, 1955(1955-02-04)
Age	69
Birthplace	Dickinson
Country	United States
Birth City	North Dakota
Horoscope	Aquarius

Clay S. Jenkinson Biography

Clay S. Jenkinson is one of the most popular and richest American author who was born on February 4, 1955 in Dickinson, North Dakota, United States. Clay Straus Jenkinson (born February 4 1955, in Dickinson, North Dakota) is a prominent American Humanities researcher, writer and teacher. He is currently director at The Dakota Institute, where the public radio station hosts his own show, The Thomas Jefferson Hour, and produces documentaries, symposiums as well as literary and artistic projects. He teaches in Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College.

Jenkinson was first famous because of his performance (first-person his historical portrayal) in the role of Thomas Jefferson. The 11th of April, 1994 Jenkinson was the first humanities scholar to deliver a talk at an event sponsored by the White House in which he was able to present Thomas Jefferson for a gathering hosted by the President as well as Clinton. Clinton. In his role as co-founder of the contemporary Chautauqua movements, Jenkinson has also portrayed Sir Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John Wesley Powell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Theodore Roosevelt, and Meriwether Lewis.

On November 15, 2006, Clay appeared as Jefferson on The Colbert Report with two other Jefferson impersonators, Bill Barker and Steven Edenbo.

Since 1989, Jenkinson was among the first recipients of the nation’s top humanities prize that is the Charles Frankel Award. It was the National Endowment for the Humanities previously stated Jenkinson as “A leader in the revival of Chautauqua, a forum for public discussion about the ideas and lives of key figures in American history.” Jenkinson has been honored with his Robert J. Laxalt Writer of the Year Award by the University of Nevada-Reno. He is also an official Rhodes scholar and a Danforth Scholar. Jenkinson was a senior fellow at the Center for Digital Government, located in California as well as a scholar-in-residence in Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon from 2002-2006 and Roosevelt scholars-in-residence from Dickinson State University from 2005-2008. In 2004, Jenkinson was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame, a signature event of Norsk Hostfest.

Clay S. Jenkinson Net Worth

Clay S. Jenkinson is one of the richest American Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Clay S. Jenkinson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jenkinson was born in Dickinson located in southwestern North Dakota; his father was a banker, while his mother was a teacher. While the family moved often while the two of them were young, Jenkinson grew up mostly in Dickinson. Jenkinson graduated from Dickinson High School in 1973 and went on to Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota. He graduated in 1977 , with a the degree of English and later became named a Rhodes student at Oxford.

Jenkinson owns one daughter Catherine Missouri Walker Jenkinsonafter his wedding to Etta L. Walker (they got married on the 16th of March 1986, but split in 1997). The name of his daughter is derived from his wife, the Little Missouri River.

In 2005 at the age of 50 Jenkinson returned to North Dakota as a permanent resident; he resides in Bismarck. He is currently the Director of The Dakota Institute through The Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, Chief Consultant to The Theodore Roosevelt Center through Dickinson State University, Distinguished Humanities Scholar at Bismarck State College, and a columnist for the Bismarck Tribune. He is James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont.

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Clay Ranked on the list of most popular American author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Clay S. Jenkinson celebrates birthday on February 4 of every year.