Ulysses Jenkins

Jenkins found his most fearsome and effective ally in Maximino Ávila Camacho, brother of future president Manuel Ávila Camacho, who helped him resist President Cárdenas’s plan to e...

This chapter focuses on C. Francis Jenkins' inventions that he sold through several business startups. Until the late 1920s, Jenkins had no significant outside corporate sponsors. ...

Jenkins lived on in both a Black Legend, whereby leftists memorialized him as a grasping gringo, and a White Legend, whereby his Mary Street Jenkins Foundation perpetuated his repu...

A short assessment of Jenkins’s legacy and the impact of the state-capital symbioses that his career exemplified. Jenkins had much in common with the richest person in Mexico of to...

Mexico under the dictator Porfirio Díaz bore some resemblance to the postbellum South, in its social and racial hierarchies, but what drew Jenkins was Mexico’s rapid industrializat...

In 1919, rebels seeking to discredit President Carranza kidnapped Jenkins, but once his friends had paid the ransom he found himself jailed for having concocted the episode, a move...

While Jenkins was developing Mexico’s most productive sugar plantation, he repeatedly faced attempts by radical agraristas to dispossess him of land, efforts he countered not only ...

At the war’s end, Jenkins began to fulfill his pledge to his wife of a return to the United States, commissioning a Los Angeles mansion and selling his mill, but one of the rural p...