George Ruby

Biography:

George T. Ruby was a prominent black Republican leader in Reconstruction-era Texas. He served in the 1868-69 constitutional convention the Texas senate and as a delegate to two Republican national conventions. Ruby was born in New York City New York in 1841. His parents probably were the Rev. Ebenezer Ruby and Jemima Ruby though their son would claim that his father was a well to do white man. From early in life Ruby lived just outside Portland Maine where he had his schooling.