David Jenkins (c. 1811 – September 4, 1876)[1][2] was an abolitionist, civil rights campaigner, newspaper founder, and politician in Columbus, Ohio and Mississippi.
[3] He served as a state legislator in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
During the Civil War he served in the 127th Ohio Infantry.
After the war he worked for the Freedmens Bureau in Mississippi.
[7] He and Alfred Handy, another African American state legislator for Madison County, were warned about opposing "honest rule" in a notice run in the Canton Mail in 1876.