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John Edwin Ruthven Ray (Shelby County, Tennessee, attorney, farmer, and secretary of state)

b. 1826? d. 1879-07

Shelby County, Tennessee, attorney, farmer, and secretary of state. South Carolina native. Married to Mollie S. Ray. Father of Eddie Ray and Willie Ray. Attorney in Weakley County, Tennessee, in 1850. Attorney and farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Secretary of State of Tennessee from 1859 to 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Weakley County, Dresden, p. 483A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, District 14, p. 397.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Mortality Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, p. 433.

"Historical Listings of Constitutional Officers," Tennessee Blue Book, 2007-2008, Tennessee Department of State, p. 507.

Citation

Ray, John Edwin Ruthven. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211449 (November 12, 2026).

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