Joseph Rankin

Joseph Rankin

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Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1822-1823 Representative Democrat
1823-1824 Representative Democrat
1824-1825 Representative Democrat
1826-1827 Representative Democrat
1827-1828 Representative Democrat
1828-1829 Representative Democrat
Counties Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson

Biography

1774 - 06/20/1839


RANKIN, Joseph A., a Representative from Armstrong, Indiana and Jefferson Counties; born, 1774 in Drumhome, County Donegal, Ireland; justice of the peace, Armstrong County; elected, commissioner, Armstrong County (1810); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1822-1823, 1823-1824 and 1824-1825 terms; reelected to the House for the 1826-1827, 1827-1828 and 1828-1829 terms; elected, delegate, State Democratic Convention (1829, 1835); appointed, associate judge, Armstrong County (1829-1839); president, Armstrong County Democratic Committee (1830); died, June 20, 1839 in Toby Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania; interred, Rimersburg Cemetery, Rimersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.


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