Robert Pleasant Trippe

Background

Robert Pleasant was born on December 21, 1819, in Monticello, Jasper County, Georgia, United States. He was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Bass Trippe.

Education

Trippe attended Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. He graduated first in the class of 1839 at Franklin College (later the University of Georgia).

Career

In 1840, Robert Trippe was admitted to the Georgia bar.

Trippe practiced law in Forsyth, Georgia, became interested in politics, and served in the Georgia House from 1849 to 1852. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States House in 1852 but was later elected and served two terms as a Whig (1855-1859). He was a supporter of the Know-Nothing faction in Georgia.

In 1859-1860, he served in the state Senate, preferring that to national political office. He was a member of the first Confederate House of Representatives.

He served on the Commerce, Elections, Quartermaster’s, and Special Committees and was generally an administration supporter. He also served in the Confederate Army from 1862 to 1865. After the war, he practiced law in Forsyth and Atlanta, Georgia.

Trippe was a founder of Monroe College in Forsyth, and from 1873 to 1875, he was an associate judge of the state Supreme Court. In 1880, he was elected to the state legislature and he served for a number of years.

Achievements

• Robert Pleasant Trippe served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was elected to represent Georgia's 3rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. During the war, he was elected to as a Representative from Georgia in the Confederate Congress.

Politics

At first a unionist and a John Bell supporter in 1860, Robert Trippe supported secession in the Georgia convention.

Membership

While at Franklin College, Robert was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.

Connections

Trippe had six children by his 1842 marriage to Anne O'Neal.

Father:

Robert Trippe

Mother:

Elizabeth Bass Trippe

Wife:

Anne O'Neal Trippe

References

• Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy
  1977