Clay S. Jenkinson Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Clay S. Jenkinson is an American author, historian, and scholar. He is best known for his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in The Thomas Jefferson Hour, a nationally syndicated radio program. He is also the author of several books, including The Character of Meriwether Lewis, The Character of Thomas Jefferson, and The Character of John Adams. Jenkinson was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, and grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota. He attended the University of North Dakota, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977. He then attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1983. Jenkinson is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the National Humanities Medal. He is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As of 2021, Clay S. Jenkinson has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

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Age68 years old
Zodiac SignAquarius
Born4 February, 1955
Birthday4 February
BirthplaceDickinson, North Dakota, United States
NationalityUnited States

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

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.

In 1989, Jenkinson became one of the first winners of the nation's highest award in the humanities, the Charles Frankel Prize. The National Endowment for the Humanities once described 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." He has been awarded the Robert J. Laxalt Writer of the Year Award from University of Nevada-Reno and is a Rhodes scholar and Danforth Scholar. Jenkinson was a senior fellow for the Center for Digital Government, based in California, and was scholar-in-residence at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon from 2002–2006, and Roosevelt scholar-in-residence at Dickinson State University from 2005-2008. In 2004, Jenkinson was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame, a signature event of Norsk Høstfest.

Jenkinson has one child, Catherine Missouri Walker Jenkinson,[1][2] from his marriage to Etta L. Walker (they married on 16 March 1986 and divorced in 1997). His daughter was named after the Little Missouri River.

Jenkinson was born in Dickinson, in southwestern North Dakota; 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. He graduated from Dickinson High School in 1973 and then attended Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota. He graduated in 1977 with a degree in English, and was then a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.

Clay Straus Jenkinson (born February 4, 1955 in Dickinson, North Dakota) is an American humanities scholar, author and educator. He is currently the director of The Dakota Institute, where he co-hosts public radio's The Thomas Jefferson Hour, and creates documentary films, symposia, and literary projects. He lectures at Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College.

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