Robert Pleasant Trippe

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Robert Pleasant Trippe (born December 21, 1819 in Monticello , Jasper County , Georgia , †  July 22, 1900 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician who represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

Robert Trippe first attended Randolph-Macon College in Ashland ( Virginia ) before graduating from Franklin College at the University of Georgia in Athens in 1839 . He then studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1840 and began to practice as a lawyer in Forsyth . In 1849 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, to which he belonged until 1852, when he unsuccessfully tried to be elected to the US House of Representatives. In 1854 Trippe ran again for Congress and was this time successful as a candidate for the American Party . He represented the third electoral district from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859 and then did not seek re-election.

Instead, Trippe moved after leaving Congress in the Georgia Senate , where he remained until 1861, before he became a member of the House of Representatives in the first Confederate Congress . He also served during the Civil War from 1862 to 1865 in the Confederate Army . After the war he became a lawyer again and served from 1873 as an associate judge on the Supreme Court of Georgia . In 1875 he resigned from this office and from then on worked again as a lawyer in Atlanta, where he died in July 1900.

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SURNAME Trippe, Robert Pleasant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH near Monticello , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1900
Place of death Atlanta , Georgia