Charles Jones Jenkins (January 6, 1805 – June 14, 1883) was an American politician from Georgia.

Jenkins remained a respected figure in Georgia, and despite not running for the office, he received two electoral votes in the 1872 United States presidential election, due to the premature death of candidate Horace Greeley.

[1] Jenkins left the university before graduating and finished his education in 1824 at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

[2] Jenkins first gained widespread attention as the author of the Georgia Platform, a proclamation by a special state convention that endorsed the Compromise of 1850.

During the American Civil War, he was appointed by Governor Joseph E. Brown as a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.