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Robert 'Bob' E. Rankin (born 1942) is an American politician who served as a
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member of the Colorado State Senate for the
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(and briefly the
5th Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...
) from 2019 until his resignation on January 10, 2023. He was initially appointed to the State Senate by a vacancy committee in January 2019 after the resignation of
Randy Baumgardner Randy L. Baumgardner is an American politician who served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 57th district from 2009 to 2013, and in the Colorado Senate from the 8th district from 2013 to 2019, as a member of the Republican Party ...
. Previously, Rankin served in the
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representing District 57 from January 9, 2013, to January 21, 2019. On December 1, 2022, Rankin announced that he was resigning from the State Senate. The resignation took effect on the second day of the 2023 Colorado General Assembly session, January 10, 2023. A Republican vacancy committee selected former state representative
Perry Will Perry Will is an American politician and retired wildlife officer from the state of Colorado. He is a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Colorado Senate. He represents Colorado's 5th Senate district, District 5, which inc ...
to complete Rankin's term.


Personal Life

Family Wife: Joyce Rankin Education Graduated, Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University Professional Experience * Vice President/General Manager, Ford Aerospace Corporation * Served as Officer, United States Army * Chief Executive Officer/Founder, Interactive Outdoors, Incorporated, 2000-2005


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Official page
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Financial information (state office)
at the National Institute for Money in State Politics Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Republican Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives People from Barber County, Kansas Southwestern College (Kansas) alumni 21st-century American politicians Republican Party Colorado state senators People from Garfield County, Colorado 1969 births {{Colorado-politician-stub