xt7xks6j2258_68 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dipstest/xt7xks6j2258/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dipstest/xt7xks6j2258/data/rankin4kdl.dao.xml Rankin, Fred W. (Fred Wharton),
                    1886- Cubit feet ? 7 boxes This collection comprises six scrapbooks (plus one box of miscellaneous items) of letters, newsclippings, and photographs documenting major milestones in the career of Lexinngton, Kentucky surgeon Fred W. Rankin, M.D. archival material English unknown This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed.  Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.  Physical rights are retained by the owning repository.  Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.  For information about permissions to reproduce or publish, contact the Special Collections Research Center. Fred W. Rankin, M.D. Scrapbooks Correspondence –– Rankin, Fred W. (Fred Wharton),
                1886- American Medical Association Military Medicine –– History –– United
                States American Surgical Association American College of Surgeons News clipping. Source unknown. "National Body of Physicians                                 Honors Rankin." text News clipping. Source unknown. "National Body of Physicians                                 Honors Rankin." 2012 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dipstest/xt7xks6j2258/data/rankin4kdl_2/rankin4kdl_2_9b/i2-9b/i2-9b.pdf June 6, [1941] 1941 June 6, [1941] section false xt7xks6j2258_68 xt7xks6j2258 . 1942. V V'
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  CLEVELAND, June 6 (.1P)—Dr.
  Fred Wharton Rankin of Lexing-
`  ton, Ky., was named president-elect
 gof the American Medical Associa-
 "tion at a meeting of its house of
 rdelegates Thursday. He wg;. suc-
1 ceed Dr. Frank H. Lahey inr1942.
2 .Dr. Rankin, native of Moores-
gl ville, N. C., was graduated from the
  University of Maryland School of
{ Medicine in Baltimore in 1909 and
.1c,ompleted his internship in 1912,
l later studying at the Mayo clinic
1 at Rochester, Minn., after which he
1 "servied as professor of surgery at
the University of Louisville School
  of Medicine. . 1
1 During the World .War he served}
 as-.a major in the medical corps.
1 and was commanding officer of a
  basehospital in France. He. served
1as 1 president of the Southeastern
¥ Surgical Congress and the Southern
{Surgical Association before his
`eleétion `as president of the Amer-.;
ilican Surgical’Association.. 1
[r. [Dr. Charles A. Dukes, Oakland;
 Calif., iwas chosen vice president?
.to, serve during the current year,
1.suc¤eeamg‘ Dr. Parker G. Smith,l
Cincinnati. St. Louis was selected1
fashethe 1944. convention city. 1
e   Rankin last month was ap-1
ipointed a clinical professor of]
1 surgery at the University of,;Louis-I
1 vil1e.,School of Medicine. Hé is ex-;
Epected to commute between Lex-?
sington and Louisville at the start]
_ofQ"1clasVses next. fall. Dr. Ranking
  professor of surgery at the,
"seligool in 1922 and 1923~before¤he{
.stgrted`.private practice at Lexing-f