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|spouse=Adeline "Dookie" Delorette Ripoll

|spouse=Adeline "Dookie" Delorette Ripoll (1927-1999)

|children=Bonnie Ripoll-Falgout<br>

|children=Bonnie Ripoll-Falgout<br>

Three grandchildren  

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==Biography==

==Biography==

Ripoll was one of five children of the late Edward Ripoll, Sr., and the former Mary Forster.<ref name=rjrip/> He graduated from the former Francis T. Nicholls High School at 3820 Saint Claude Avenue in New Orleans, since renamed for the [[African-American]] [[abolitionist]] [[Frederick Douglass]] and since a [[charter school]], KIPP Renaissance High School. He joined the [[United States Marine Corps]] with service in [[World War II]] from 1944 to 1945. He was affiliated with the American Legion and was an honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.<ref>"Louisiana: Ripoll, Edward Conrad (Bud)," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2003-2004,'' 19th ed., Vol. 1 (Alabama-Montana) (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence,  [[New Jersey]], 2003), p. 793.</ref> Thereafter, he was a [[longshoreman]] and [[steel]]worker and was employed until 1960<ref name=bio/> at Huerstel's Bar and Restaurant at the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Independence Street, since a convenience store.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pontchartrain.net/templates/System/details.asp?id=40334&PID=495870|title=Huerstel's|publisher=pontchartrain.net|accessdate=January 18, 2021}}</ref> Ripoll then opened his own bar at 900 Piety Street at the intersection with Burgundy Street.<ref name=bio/>

Ripoll was one of five children of the late Edward Ripoll, Sr. (1900-1966), and the former Mary Forster (1902-1980).<ref name=rjrip/> He graduated from the former Francis T. Nicholls High School at 3820 Saint Claude Avenue in New Orleans, since renamed for the [[African-American]] [[abolitionist]] [[Frederick Douglass]] and since a [[charter school]], KIPP Renaissance High School. He joined the [[United States Marine Corps]] with service in [[World War II]] from 1944 to 1945. He was affiliated with the American Legion and was an honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.<ref>"Louisiana: Ripoll, Edward Conrad (Bud)," ''Who's Who in American Politics, 2003-2004,'' 19th ed., Vol. 1 (Alabama-Montana) (Marquis Who's Who: New Providence,  [[New Jersey]], 2003), p. 793.</ref> Thereafter, he was a [[longshoreman]] and [[steel]]worker and was employed until 1960<ref name=bio/> at Huerstel's Bar and Restaurant at the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Independence Street, since a convenience store.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pontchartrain.net/templates/System/details.asp?id=40334&PID=495870|title=Huerstel's|publisher=pontchartrain.net|accessdate=January 18, 2021}}</ref> Ripoll then opened his own bar at 900 Piety Street at the intersection with Burgundy Street.<ref name=bio/>

In 1983, Ripoll challenged incumbent Democrat Representative [[Edward S. Bopp]], an [[attorney]] and former pharmacist, who led a four-candidate field with 5,631 votes (37.3 percent). Ripoll claimed the second position in the [[general election]] with 3,426 votes (22.7 percent). Trailing in third place by 61 votes was another Democrat, later Republican, [[business]]man [[Kenneth Odinet|Kenneth L. Odinet, Sr.]], of Arabi in in St. Bernard Parish. Finishing fourth was former [[U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's 1st congressional district, Richard Alvin Tonry, with 2,693 votes (17.8 percent). Tonry had been forced from office in a scandal in 1977. In this same election, Edwin Edwards unseated one-term Republican Governor [[David C. Treen]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> In the second round of balloting, Ripoll unseated Bopp, 5,266 votes (53.1 percent) to 4,649 (46.9 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 19, 1983.</ref>

In 1983, Ripoll challenged incumbent Democrat Representative [[Edward S. Bopp]], an [[attorney]] and former pharmacist, who led a four-candidate field with 5,631 votes (37.3 percent). Ripoll claimed the second position in the [[general election]] with 3,426 votes (22.7 percent). Trailing in third place by 61 votes was another Democrat, later Republican, [[business]]man [[Kenneth Odinet|Kenneth L. Odinet, Sr.]], of Arabi in in St. Bernard Parish. Finishing fourth was former [[U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's 1st congressional district, Richard Alvin Tonry, with 2,693 votes (17.8 percent). Tonry had been forced from office in a scandal in 1977. In this same election, Edwin Edwards unseated one-term Republican Governor [[David C. Treen]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> In the second round of balloting, Ripoll unseated Bopp, 5,266 votes (53.1 percent) to 4,649 (46.9 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 19, 1983.</ref>

In the House, Ripoll served on the Judiciary and the Municipal, Parochial, and Cultural Affairs committees. He was unseated after one term by the Democrat Kenneth Odinet, who had also run in 1983. Odinet received 6,160 votes (59.1 percent) to Ripoll's 4,269 (40.9 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 21, 1987.</ref>

In the House, Ripoll served on the Judiciary and the Municipal, Parochial, and Cultural Affairs committees. He was unseated after one term by the Democrat Kenneth Odinet, who had also run in 1983. Odinet received 6,160 votes (59.1 percent) to Ripoll's 4,269 (40.9 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 21, 1987.</ref>