Granville Ryles

{{short description|American politician (1831–1909)}}

Granville Ryles (1831–1909){{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23388061|title=Pioneer Black Legislators from Kentucky, 1860s–1960s|author=Wallenstein, Peter|year=2012|journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society|volume=110|issue=3/4|pages=533–557|doi=10.1353/khs.2012.0052|jstor=23388061|s2cid=162227370}} was a minister,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15362473/micawber/|title=Micawber|newspaper=Arkansas Weekly Patriot|date=May 3, 1872|page=2|via=newspapers.com}} farmer, and state legislator in Arkansas. In 1883 he represented Pulaski County in the Arkansas House of Representatives.{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/african-american-legislators-nineteenth-century-13932/|title=Encyclopedia of Arkansas|website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas}}

He was part of the A.M.E. Church.{{cite web | url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/wright/wright.html | title=Richard R. Wright (Richard Robert), b. 1878. Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Containing Principally the Biographies of the Men and Women, both Ministers and Laymen, Whose Labors During a Hundred Years, Helped Make the A.M.E. Church What It is }} He was an official at the 1880 Arkansas Colored Convention.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15363365/greenbackers-meeting-of-the-state/|title=Greenbackers meeting of the state convention|newspaper=Daily Arkansas Gazette|date=June 17, 1880|pages=8|via=newspapers.com}} He was involved in a legal dispute over a farmed land area he leased in former Indian Territory.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgBIAQAAMAAJ&q=granville+ryles&pg=PA331|title=Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma|first=Oklahoma Supreme|last=Court|date=June 27, 1910|publisher=State Capital Company|via=Google Books}}