Title: George Rankin
Content:  George James Rankin, (1 May 1887 – 28 December 1957) was an Australian soldier and politician. He served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, representing the Country Party of Australia.
Title: George Ranken
Content:  George Ranken (4 January 1828 – 28 February 1856) was a British soldier and author. A major in the Royal Engineers, he was known for his service in the Crimean War and travel writing.
Title: George Rankin
Content:  Rankin was elected chief president of the Victorian United Country Party (VUCP) in 1937, but resigned later that year in order to contest the seat of Bendigo in the Australian House of Representatives. He was elected, and became part of the faction of the Country Party that advocated coalition with the United Australia Party. However, he was forced to back down on this by the State council of the VUCP. Rankin became well known as an advocate of returned servicemen and wheat-farmers. He was a voracious critic of the Labor governments of John Curtin and Ben Chifley. When in 1949, an electoral redistribution substantially changed Rankin's seat, he contested the Senate instead and won. He was returned in 1951, but his parliamentary activity steadily decreased. He remained an active and vigorous anti-communist until his retirement, due to ill health, in 1955. Rankin died of cerebrovascular disease on 28 December 1957 at Rochester, where he was buried, and was survived by his wife.
Title: George Ranken (writer)
Content:  stock and station agency. He was an estate agent from 1876, based in St Leonards where he was also an alderman and mayor (1886). He wrote a column for the Sydney Morning Herald under the name "Capricornus", primarily addressing land issues. He published a novel as W. H. Walker in 1877, The Invasion; a subsequent novel, Windabyne, was serialised in 1878&ndash;79. From 1879 he served on the royal commission into the Lands Department, and from 1883 was joint commissioner into land laws with Augustus Morris, delivering a controversial report which was vigorously attacked by Sir John Robertson, but upon which the 1884 Crown Lands Act was based. From 1888 Ranken was a surveyor in Young, and in 1891 he published The Federal Geography of British Australasia. He died in Young in 1895.
Title: Guy R. Rankin
Content:  Guy R. Rankin, IV is the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Harris County Housing Authority in Houston, Texas. He is the CEO and President of International Housing Solutions.
Title: Karl L. Rankin
Content:  Rankin was first married to Pauline Jordan on October 3, 1925. After his retirement from the diplomatic corps, they made his home in South Bridgton, Maine. In 1964, he published a memoir, China Assignment. Pauline Rankin died in 1976 and he married Ruth Thompson Garcelon in 1978. Rankin died of prostate cancer on January 15, 1991 in Kennebunkport, Maine. He was a Congregationalist.
Title: George Ranken (writer)
Content:  George Ranken (17 July 1827 &ndash; 6 May 1895) was a Scottish-born Australian surveyor, pastoralist and writer. He was born in Ayrshire to solicitor Thomas Ranken and Jean Campbell Logan. He became a surveyor, and in 1851 migrated to Victoria, where he worked for the Bank of New South Wales as a gold buyer. From 1855 he farmed around Wide Bay and the Burnett River in partnership with William Landsborough. He returned to Scotland in 1858, and the following year married Fanny Sarah Shaw. Returning to Queensland in late 1859, he lived at Rockhampton, and from March 1868 was commissioner of crown lands for Port Curtis (Leichhardt from September 1868). He was charged with attempted murder in 1869, but he was acquitted. Ranken then moved to Sydney, where he was a partner in 
Title: Russ Rankin
Content:  Russ Rankin (born May 25, 1968) is an American musician, record producer, hockey scout and writer from Santa Cruz, California. He is best known as the singer for the punk rock bands Good Riddance and Only Crime.
Title: Harry Rankin
Content:  when he ran for mayor in 1986, losing to Gordon Campbell. He returned to city council as an alderman in the subsequent election and remained on the body until his retirement from politics in 1993. He died on February 26, 2002, from a heart attack, aged 81. Rankin's widow, Connie Fogal, is the former leader of the Canadian Action Party. Rankin's son, Phil Rankin, continues in his father's footsteps as a lawyer and advocate for legal aid. His grandson, Micah Rankin, is a law professor at Thompson Rivers University. His nephew, Lee Rankin is a lawyer and was a long-time councillor in Burnaby, British Columbia and was a federal Liberal candidate in 2000 and a BC Liberal candidate in the 2009 provincial election.
Title: Sir Robert Rankin, 1st Baronet
Content:  Rankin worked for Pollok, Gilmour and Company, before it was subsequently renamed, and he became director and chairman of shipbuilders Rankin, Gilmour and Company, Liverpool. He was president of the Lonsdale Unionist Division (1937–1947), a vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth Society, and a vice-president of the Air League of the British Empire. He was selected High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1948.

Question: What is George Rankin's occupation?
Answer: politician.
political leader.
political figure.
polit.
pol.