Thomas Jenkins (1801–1866) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
[1] Later, he settled in what is now Dodgeville, Wisconsin (at the time part of Michigan Territory).
During the Black Hawk War, Jenkins fought under the command of Henry Dodge.
He was wounded in the hip during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1832).
[2] Previously, he had been a member of the Legislature of the Wisconsin Territory and a delegate to the constitutional convention to write the Constitution of Wisconsin.