Rankin, Leland
journalist, was born June 16, 1867, in Nashville, Tenn. He attended Webb's Classical Training school, and the Southwestern Presbyterian university of Clarksville, Tenn. He has worked on newspapers in Texas, New Orleans, St. Louis, and elsewhere; has been literary editor of the Nashville Banner; chief of the bureau of promotion and publicity at the Tennessee centennial; and director of the Tennessee centennial.
He is now the president and manager of the Nashville American, which publishes daily, Sunday, and semi-weekly editions, and is one of the foremost newspapers of the south.