Ripke "Rip" Reukema (April 23, 1857September 17, 1917) was an American lawyer and

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politician from

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. He was a member of the

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(

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...

) and

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(

1893 Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – Th ...

). He was of Dutch descent.

Biography

Rip Reukema was born in

, to immigrants from the Netherlands. He was educated in the

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and went on to study law in the offices of Nathan Pereles and E. P. Smith. He would become a

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, being admitted to practice in open court upon examination March 7, 1881. Reukema died on September 17, 1917, in Milwaukee.'Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report 1894-1919,' Harvard University Class of 1894, pg. 288

Political career

Reukema was elected to the

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in 1892, serving in the 1893 session. A decade later, he won a 1902

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to serve in the State Senate for the 1903 session, completing the term of William Devos, who had resigned to become collector of customs at the port of Milwaukee. He was a

. He was elected twice as Justice of the Peace. He served as director of the Milwaukee

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from 1897 to 1899, and member of the school board commission from 1901 to 1902. He was also the treasurer of the Milwaukee Bar Association, and director of the Citizens' Loan and Trust Company.

References

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