John Jenkins

John Hogan Jenkins (1852–1936) was a Welsh trade unionist and politician. He was mayor of Cardiff (1903–04), President of the Trades Union Congress (1895–96) and Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham, Kent (1906–1910).

Biography Jenkins was born in Pembroke on 27 May 1852. A shipwright by trade, he spent most of his life in Cardiff. He was firstly a Liberal-Labour and then Labour Party politician.

Driven by strong Methodist Christian principles, he founded a Shipwrights Society in Cardiff, becoming its president. He helped found several other trade unions.

In 1900 he was elected to Cardiff Council and was Mayor of Cardiff from 1903 to 1904. Jenkins was unexpectedly defeated at the January 1910 election by the Conservative Party candidate, Gerald Hohler, who ran a compelling campaign to improve the British navy. The local Chatham newspaper in 1910 ran the headline "Surprising Defeat of Alderman Jenkins". Jenkins did not stand for Parliament again.