H. C. Tipton

Henry Clay Tipton was a state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas Senate in 1877 and again in 1881 when he became President of the Arkansas Senate. A Democrat, he represented Izard County. In 1877, his post office was identified as being in La Crosse, Arkansas. He served in the Civil War. He held an appointed federal office and became state treasurer. succeeding Thomas E. Little after his death.

He had ten brothers and sisters. He was Presbyterian. He and his first wife Alice Lawrason had 11 children. After she died in 1905 he remarried to Mildred Hinkle.

He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

He served as Register of the land office in Harrison, Arkansas.

In an account describing Linnie Hutchison of Tennessee as a Confederate heroine, it is stated that she was well known to Tipton.