Terms of Service

• House, 10th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  11/2/1863 - 8/6/1866
   
  

(1) "In 1863 he was elected representative for Mason County to the Tenth Texas Legislature, serving through 1864. Following the war Ranck was an active member of the early Texas Republican Party . . . In January 1866 Ranck represented Mason County in the Radical Union Caucus, a subset of the Texas Republicans." Handbook of Texas Online .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• Portrait, 10th Legislature, Regular Session. House Journal .

Other Resources

• Texas State Troops, Private, Company K, Frontier Regiment, Colonel J.E. McCord commanding. James E. Ranck, age 29. Civil War Index - Abstracts of Muster Rolls.
  Texas State Troops, 2nd Junior Lieutenant, Company E, Frontier Regiment, Col. James M. Norris commanding. James E. Ranck, enlisted 2/20/1862 in Mason County. Civil War Index - Abstracts of Muster Rolls. Ancestry.com .
• Census of 1880 - James Ranck, Mason, Mason County, age 47, born circa 1833 in Indiana. FamilySearch . 1880
• James E. Ranck, birth date 9/11/1832, death date 8/10/1892, burial in Gooch Cemetery, Mason, Mason County. Includes biographical sketch, portrait. Find a Grave .
• RANCK, JAMES E. (1833-?). "Father of Mason County," died sometime after 1888. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Mentioned in MASON, TEXAS. Handbook of Texas Online .

Committee Information

• 10th R.S. - 1863
• Frontier Defense and Protection  
• Indian Affairs  
• Military Affairs