Christopher Rankin

Christopher Rankin (* 1788 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, † March 14, 1826 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1826 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The exact date of birth of Christopher Rankin is unknown. The sources go but from 1788 as a year of his birth. He attended school in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Then he moved to Georgia, where he worked as a teacher and at the same time studied law. After his made ​​in 1809 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Liberty in Amite County ( Mississippi).

Rankin joined the Democratic- Republican Party. In 1813 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory. In 1816 he moved to Natchez, where he also worked as a lawyer. 1817 Rankin was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Mississippi. At the time he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In the following years, he held various local offices.

In the congressional elections of 1818 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he broke on March 4, 1819 from George Poindexter. After he was in 1820, 1822 and 1824 respectively re-elected, he could remain until his death on March 14, 1826 in Congress. There he was at times chairman of the committee that dealt with the management of state property. Christopher Rankin was buried at the Congress Cemetery in Washington.

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