Christopher Rankin (1788 – March 14, 1826) was an attorney and politician from Pennsylvania, who moved to the Mississippi Territory in 1809.
He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1817, and was later elected as a U.S. representative for several terms, serving from 1819 to 1826.
[1] He moved to Georgia, where he taught a village school and studied law at the same time.
Rankin was elected to a term as a member of the territorial legislature in 1812, serving one year.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Seventeenth through Nineteenth Congresses).