Christopher Rankin

Christopher Rankin (1788 – March 14, 1826) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.

Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Rankin attended preparatory studies at Jefferson College (now Washington & Jefferson College) in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1808.^[1] He then moved to Georgia where he taught a village school and studied law at the same time. He was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Liberty, Mississippi. He served as member of the territorial legislature in 1813. He moved to Natchez, Mississippi, in 1816 and practiced law. He served as member of the state constitutional convention in 1817. He was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1817. He held several local offices.

Rankin was elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1819, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1826. He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Seventeenth through Nineteenth Congresses). He was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.

References

• Christopher Rankin at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

Biography portal

• Christopher Rankin at Find a Grave

1. ^ Eaton, Samuel John Mills; Woods, Henry (1902). Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College. Philadelphia: G.H. Buchanan and Company. p. 21. OCLC 2379959. http://books.google.com/books?id=x8ggAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2010-04-04. 

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