Marvin "Red" Burton (August 10, 1885 – May 16, 1970) was a Texas Ranger during the 1920s. A native Texan, Burton worked in various positions of law enforcement almost the entirety of his adult career. He is perhaps most well-known for his encounters with the Ku Klux Klan in October 1921. Burton is also remembered for his involvement in busting bootlegging operations during Prohibition, and cleaning up crime in wild towns like Borger, Texas. Over the span of his 35-year career, Red Burton became somewhat of a legend in the ranks of Texas law enforcement, and was inducted into the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame with its establishment in 1968. Early life Marvin "Red" Burton was born on August 10, 1885 in McLennan County, Texas. Red was the youngest son of John Fletcher Burton (1854-1932; 78-years old) and Mary Alice Cubley (1856-1886; 29-years old). Red's parents were migrants to Texas from Mississippi and settled in the McLennan County region in the late 1870s. Alice Burton died within a year after Marvin was born. Marvin came from a large family, with 5 older siblings and 3 younger half siblings. His eldest brother William Robert Burton was born in 1876 and died in 1910 (34 years old). His oldest and only fully related sister Laura Pearl Burton Peurifoy and her twin brother John Carl Burton were born in 1878. Laura Pearl died in 1933 (55 years old). John Carl died in 1912 at age 34. Marvin had two more brothers, Luther Milton Burton (1880-1904; 24 years old) and Travis Henson Burton (1883-1969; 86 years old). Marvin's father remarried in 1888, two years after Alice died. He and his second wife Mollie Hudgins Burton (1857-1943; 86 years old) had Red's three younger half-sisters together; Augusta Burton Johnson (1891-1983; 92 years old ), Ruby Burton Robertson (1895-1980; 85 years old), and Ellen Burton, born in October 1893; she died less than two years later in August 1895. Burton's parents had settled on a farm between Mart and Waco, and his childhood was quick and tough. Marvin attended school when he could, but helped to run the family farm doing chores, which kept him very preoccupied. However, he learned many useful traits that he later used in his career, including riding and shooting. After a typical upbringing for the area and time, Marvin Burton started his own family at the age of eighteen. Burton married