Editing Clay S. Jenkinson (section)

==Life==
Jenkinson was born in [[Dickinson, North Dakota|Dickinson]], in southwestern [[North Dakota]];<ref>{{YouTube|QdFvFq2r5f0}}</ref> 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 (Dickinson, North Dakota)|Dickinson High School]] in 1973 and then attended [[Vanderbilt University]]<ref name=JeffersonHour0987>{{Cite podcast |url=https://jeffersonhour.com |title=Episode #987 At The Barn |date=2 September 2012}}</ref> and the [[University of Minnesota]].  He graduated in 1977 with a degree in English, and was then a [[Rhodes scholar]] at Oxford.

In 2005 at the age of 50 Jenkinson returned to [[North Dakota]] as a permanent resident; he resides in [[Bismarck, North Dakota|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]], and a Distinguished Humanities Scholar at [[Bismarck State College]]. He is James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the [[University of Vermont]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uvm.edu/artsandsciences/forfaculty/marsh_profs/?Page=profs_at_large%2Fjenkinson_clay.html |title=Clay Jenkinson : James Marsh Professors-at-Large : University of Vermont |access-date=2022-06-29 |archive-date=2012-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008035754/http://www.uvm.edu/artsandsciences/forfaculty/marsh_profs/?Page=profs_at_large%2Fjenkinson_clay.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Jenkinson has one child, Catherine Missouri Walker Jenkinson,[http://bismarcktribune.com/news/obituaries/everett-albers/article_b84983d5-6f1e-5b49-a2f5-f27dae43b26c.html][https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112119/http://nullrefs.com/ev/six-pie-day-in-delightful-dickinson.htm] 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 has appeared in a number of [[Ken Burns]]' documentaries, including ''[[Thomas Jefferson (film)|Thomas Jefferson]]'', [[The Roosevelts (miniseries)|The Roosevelts]] and in Burns’ 2023 documentary ''[[The American Buffalo]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo/about-the-filmmakers | title=About the Filmmakers | website=[[PBS]] }}</ref>