William Franklin Jenkins (September 7, 1876 – December 4, 1961) was an American judge.
[1] Born in Webster County, Georgia, Jenkins attended the public schools of Eatonton, Georgia and the University of Virginia.
He received a law degree from the University of Georgia in 1896, and entered into the practice of law with his father in Putnam County, Georgia.
[2] An avid reader of classics, Jenkins was a proponent of the Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship (that the plays of William Shakespeare were actually written by Christopher Marlowe).
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