Life
Jenkinson was born in Dickinson; his father was a banker and his mother a schoolteacher. Although the family moved quite often when he and his sister were children, Jenkinson grew up mostly in Dickinson in southwest North Dakota. He graduated from Dickinson High School in 1973 and then attended the University of Minnesota. He graduated in 1977 with a degree in English, and was then a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.
At the age of 50, Jenkinson returned to North Dakota as a permanent resident in 2005 and 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 Professors-at-Large at the University of Vermont.
Jenkinson has one daughter, Catherine Missouri, from his marriage ending in 1997. Catherine was named after the Little Missouri River, which Jenkinson has said he finds poetic.
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