Background
Rankin,, Byron Mclean was born on January 8, 1930 in Mineola, Texas, United States. Son of Byron McLean Senior and Fannie (Bean) Rankin.
Rankin,, Byron Mclean was born on January 8, 1930 in Mineola, Texas, United States. Son of Byron McLean Senior and Fannie (Bean) Rankin.
Bachelor of Business Administration, University Texas, 1950. Student, Kilgore (Texas) Junior College, 1947.
Officer manager T.E. Mercer Teaming and Trucking Contractor, Post, Texas, 1950. Field auditor Texas Education Agency, Austin, 1950-1951. Assistant manager, land department Hunt Oil Corporation, Dallas, 1955-1967.
President McMoRan Oil & Gas Company, 1967-1975, co-chairman board, chairman executive committee, 1975-1977. Independent oil operator Dallas, since 1977. Board directors Freeport-McMoRan, Incorporated, New York Orleans, First Gibraltar Bank, Dallas, All-American Wildcatters, Oil Man's Hall of Fame, Dallas, Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas Company, New Orleans.
God seeks to transform relationship with and between people. If politics is about how we choose to live together and to treat one another, there is surely a place for discerning the activity of God in politics.
Every person needs the Church for spiritual and emotional care that enables to reconcile relations with God, with others, and with self.
Advisory council University Texas System College Business Administration, Austin, Chancellor's Council. Board visitors University Cancer Foundation, University Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital & Tumor Institute, Houston and others. 1st lieutenant United States Army, 1951-1955, Federal Republic Germany.
Member Dallas Wildcat Committee (past chairman), Indiana Petroleum Association American (past director), Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (past director), Dallas Petroleum Landmen Association (past director), American Association Petroleum Landmen (past secretary), Sigma Phi Epsilon (citation 1981, Texas Alpha Hall of Fame 1982) and others.
1 child, Richard S.