US Congressman, Physician, and Educator. He was a United States Representative from the State of Maryland. He was born one of four children as Eli Jones Henkle to Eli Henkle (1787-1867) and his wife Elizabeth Robison Jones Henkle (1800-1866) in Retreat Farms, Maryland, on November 24, 1828. His siblings included Moses Asbury Henkle (1819-1919), Jesse Milton Henkle (1821-1869), and John Wesley Henkle (1825-1853). He also had two half-siblings, Ann Maria Henkle (1813-1836) and Lucinda Catherine Henkle (1815-1899). He was educated locally and completed an academic course before he taught school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He also studied medicine and graduated from the prestigious University of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1850. He then practiced medicine in Brooklyn, Maryland. He then became a trustee and professor at the Maryland Agricultural College at College Park, Maryland, which is now the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. He then took an interest in politics and was elected and served a term as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates in 1863. He also served as a Member of the Maryland State Constitutional Convention in 1864, as a Member of the Maryland State Senate in 1867, 1868, and again in 1879, and was again a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegate from 1872 to 1875. He also served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative William Julian Albert (1816-1879) on March 4, 1875. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Maryland's 5th District (the Forty-Fourth Congress, the Forty-Fifth Congress, and the Forty-Sixth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to represent the Forty-Seventh Congress in 1880. In total, he was elected in 1874, reelected in 1876, reelected in 1878, and lost the election in 1880. Following his time in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Andrew Grant Chapman (1839-1892) on March 4, 1881. After leaving the United States Congress, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1889 before returning to Baltimore, Maryland, shortly before his death in 1893. He passed away in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 1, 1893, at the age of 65. Following his death, his funeral service was held from his home at 1810 Park Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, where the Reverend Dr. Julius E. Grammer read the service, assisted by the Reverend S.H. Griffith. The pallbearers were Henry and George Henkle, Edwin Dowell, John Chesley of Washington, D.C., and two nephews of the late United States Representative. Following the funeral services, he was buried in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville, Maryland. He was married to Elizabeth Ann Thomas Henkle (1829-1882) in Baltimore County, Maryland, on October 22, 1850. The couple's children included Samuel T. Henkle (-1907), Harriet Henkle (1857-1912, last name later Chesley), Francis Elizabeth Henkle (1858-1926), Eli Yeates Henkle (1859-1890), Catherine Virginia Henkle (1863-1869), Nannie Bell Henkle (1866-1920, last name later Dowell), Camilla Jone Henkle (1868-1932), and Henry Milton Henkle (1871-1903). His wife Elizabeth predeceased him, passing away from a lingering illness on October 9, 1882, at the age of 52, and she is also buried in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville, Maryland.