# Rip Reukema
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{{short description|American politician (1857–1917)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|image = Rip Reukema.jpeg
|honorific_prefix =
|name = Rip Reukema
|honorific_suffix =
|state = Wisconsin
|state_senate = Wisconsin
|district = [6th](/source/Wisconsin's_6th_State_Senate_district)
|term_start = January 5, 1903
|term_end = January 2, 1905
|predecessor = [William Devos](/source/William_Devos)
|successor = [Jacob Rummel](/source/Jacob_Rummel)
|state1 = Wisconsin
|state_assembly1 = Wisconsin
|district1 = [Milwaukee](/source/Milwaukee_County%2C_Wisconsin) 5th
|term_start1 = January 2, 1893
|term_end1 = January 7, 1895
|predecessor1 = [Conrad Krez](/source/Conrad_Krez)
|successor1 = [Albert Woller](/source/Albert_Woller_(Republican))
|party = [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States))
|birth_date = {{birth date|1857|4|23}}
|birth_place = [Milwaukee, Wisconsin](/source/Milwaukee%2C_Wisconsin), U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1917|9|17|1857|4|23}}
|death_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
|resting_place = Union Cemetery, Milwaukee
|spouse = Catalyntje Cornelia Vanden Broeke
|children = {{unbulleted list
| Anje Maria (Veenendaal)
| (b. 1890; died 1980)
}}
|profession =
}}
'''Ripke "Rip" Reukema''' (April 23, 1857{{spaced ndash}}September 17, 1917) was an American lawyer and [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) politician from [Milwaukee, Wisconsin](/source/Milwaukee%2C_Wisconsin). He was a member of the [Wisconsin State Senate](/source/Wisconsin_State_Senate) ([1903](/source/46th_Wisconsin_Legislature)) and [State Assembly](/source/Wisconsin_State_Assembly) ([1893](/source/41st_Wisconsin_Legislature)). He was of Dutch descent.
==Biography==
Rip Reukema was born in [Milwaukee, Wisconsin](/source/Milwaukee%2C_Wisconsin), to immigrants from the Netherlands. He was educated in the [Milwaukee Public Schools](/source/Milwaukee_Public_Schools) and went on to study law in the offices of Nathan Pereles and E. P. Smith.[{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/resa-reynold.html#633.39.74|title=Rip Reukema|publisher=Political Graveyard|accessdate=2011-10-27}}] He would become a [lawyer](/source/lawyer), being admitted to practice in open court upon examination March 7, 1881.[{{cite report|url= https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/LZTYQPKCIOZKX8H |title= The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin |publisher= State of Wisconsin |year= 1903 |editor-last= Erickson|editor-first= Halford |chapter= Biographical Sketches |page= 1078 |access-date= December 29, 2022 }}] 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 [Wisconsin State Assembly](/source/Wisconsin_State_Assembly) in 1892, serving in the 1893 session. A decade later, he won a 1902 [special election](/source/By-election) to serve in the State Senate for the 1903 session, completing the term of [William Devos](/source/William_Devos), who had resigned to become collector of customs at the port of Milwaukee. He was a [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)). He was elected twice as [Justice of the Peace](/source/Justice_of_the_Peace). He served as director of the Milwaukee [school board](/source/Board_of_education) 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](/source/Milwaukee_Bar_Association), and director of the Citizens' Loan and Trust Company.