Jake Henderson Jr. is the second child from Freddye and Jake Sr. and the only boy. Born January 3, 1944, Jake Jr. went to New Hampton School for Boys from 1958 to the early 1960s, attended the summer-session of the University of Vienna in 1964, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1968.

Jake Jr. enlisted in the United States Marine Corps September 19th, 1968 and served in the Vietnam War, eventually earning the title of Captain Jake Henderson Jr.

He ran the Africa Business Development Corporation, utilizing the Atlanta Economic Development Corporations offices as meeting places. Through AEDC, he worked on the Goree Island Project, an ambitious project to both revive the Goree Island, an island known for once cruelly housing enslaved individuals, and create a hotel for future tourist and visitors. This project never came to be.

He was the Vice President, then President of the Henderson Travel Service, from the late 1970s to 1984, with his sister, Gaynelle, moving the operation to Washington, D.C., where she took over as the President through to present day.

Jake Jr. died February 21, 2010, and is survived by his wife, Solange, his only children, David Hiawatha Howard and Sidney Darryl Brasier Howard, his mother-in-law, Margarita Ramirez, sisters Gaynelle Henderson-Bailey and Shirley H. Coleman, uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. William Henderson, aunt, Tennie Henderson, and many nephews, nieces, and cousins.