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W. Ripton

Walter Ripetoe

Full Name: Walter Ripetoe
Other surnames: Ripetoe, Rippetoe, Riptoe, Ripton
Date of birth: March 30, 1838
Date of death: August 15, 1886

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
S 4 Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 11, 1881 16th (1)   15th (2)   Republican Marshall / Harrison   Harrison

Terms of service footnotes


(1) Republican, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News. ↩
(2) 15th Legislature - All Senators except District 7 listed in roll call as Senators elect, oath of office administered, 4/18/1876, p. 1; Drawing of Senatorial Terms, 4/27/1876, p. 98, drew "long term" (four years). Senate Journal. April 14, 1876 ↩ April 27, 1876 ↩

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
16th (1)   15th (2)  
Party:
Republican
Home City/County:
Marshall / Harrison
Counties in district:
Harrison

Terms of service notes


(1) Republican, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News. ↩
(2) 15th Legislature - All Senators except District 7 listed in roll call as Senators elect, oath of office administered, 4/18/1876, p. 1; Drawing of Senatorial Terms, 4/27/1876, p. 98, drew "long term" (four years). Senate Journal. April 14, 1876 ↩ April 27, 1876 ↩

Biographical Information

  • Walter E. Ripetoe, birth date circa 1838 in Montgomery County, Alabama; death date 8/15/1886 in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas; burial Wiley College Cemetery, Marshall; biographical sketch. Find a Grave.
  • Portrait and biographical sketch, Walter E. Ripton (Ripetoe/Riptoe). Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas, 2002.
  • Biographical sketch,"Senator from Harrison county, the Fourth District, a colored man named Roberts [sic], a farmer," in "The State Capital: extending the international railroad to Austin - personal notices of Senators elect," 2/27/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.
  • Biographical sketch, "Proud legacy: Family's legislative heritage discovered in aging trunks," 2/28/2010, p. 9. "Rippetoe died on August 15, 1886." Marshall News Messenger.
  • Biographical sketch, Walter Ripetoe, p. 10. "In politics Mr. Ripetoe is a Republican." Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.
  • Biographical sketch, Walter Rippetoe, p. 240. "Elected to the Senate as a Republican." Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.
  • Biographical sketch, p. 59. Birth year 1838, Appendix D. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898, 2016.

  • Representative's real name Walter Ripton, "The roots of Texas' black lawmakers," 3/18/1996. Austin American-Statesman.
  • Census of 1870 - Walter Reptoe, Marshall, Harrison County, age 40, born circa 1830 in Alabama, alderman, in household with Lydda Reptoe. FamilySearch.
  • Photo, mentioned in Minority Civil Rights and the Texas Legislature, 2018.
  • Walter Ripetoe, Republican state senator, teacher, pp. 313-314, 319, 353. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880, 1983.
  • Roster lists name W. Ripetoe; bio lists name Walter Rippetoe. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.

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