POLITICIAN

Leland Stanford

1824 - 1893

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Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California. He served as the 8th Governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. He and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leland Stanford has received more than 1,722,566 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Leland Stanford is the 7,163rd most popular politician (down from 6,082nd in 2019), the 2,317th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,072nd in 2019) and the 153rd most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leland Stanfords by language

Over the past year Leland Stanford has had the most page views in the with 194,652 views, followed by Spanish (20,851), and Russian (13,386). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (147.82%), Malagasy (130.08%), and Simple English (94.50%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leland Stanford ranks 7,163 out of 19,576. Before him are Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Yahya ibn Khalid, Arnaldo Forlani, Sébastien Érard, Jacob Schiff, and Andronikos Doukas. After him are Sibylla of Anjou, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Constantine II of Scotland, Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon, Claudius Silvanus, and Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Leland Stanford ranks 30. Before him are Tokugawa Iesada, Kuno Fischer, Francesc Pi i Margall, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Karl-Maria Kertbeny. After him are Peter Cornelius, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, George MacDonald, Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, and Gustave Boulanger. Among people deceased in 1893, Leland Stanford ranks 25. Before him are Alfredo Catalani, Ferenc Erkel, Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cunningham, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Heinrich Göbel. After him are Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, P. G. T. Beauregard, George Tupou I, Aleksandra Potanina, Ford Madox Brown, and José Zorrilla.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leland Stanford ranks 2,317 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Silva (1928), Robert Plutchik (1927), Tonya Harding (1970), Garrett Morgan (1877), Peter Graves (1926), and Shannen Doherty (1971). After him are Emma Stone (1988), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Myrna Loy (1905), Steve Vai (1960), and Louis E. Brus (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Leland Stanford ranks 153. Before him are Maxwell D. Taylor (1901), Curtis LeMay (1906), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), John Conyers (1929), Kamehameha II (1797), and Paul P. Harris (1868). After him are Jerome Powell (1953), Bess Truman (1885), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Stacey Abrams (1973), John Connally (1917), and Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891).

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