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Abraham Lincoln

1809 - 1865

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Abraham Lincoln ( LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the Confederacy, playing a major role in the abolition of slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy. Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky, and was raised on the frontier, mainly in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Lincoln has received more than 60,934,586 page views. His biography is available in 198 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 191 in 2019). Abraham Lincoln is the 37th most popular politician (down from 32nd in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from United States (down from 7th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Politician.

Abraham Lincoln is most famous for being the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War, which was a conflict between the Northern and Southern states. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 198

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abraham Lincoln ranks 37 out of 19,576. Before him are Winston Churchill, Attila, Osman I, Umar, Maria Theresa, and Richard III of England. After him are Qin Shi Huang, Hillary Clinton, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Andrew Johnson, and Martin Van Buren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Abraham Lincoln ranks 3. Before him are Charles Darwin, and Edgar Allan Poe. After him are Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Albert Pike, Bruno Bauer, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1865, Abraham Lincoln ranks 1. After him are John Wilkes Booth, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Ignaz Semmelweis, Leopold I of Belgium, Emil Lenz, William Rowan Hamilton, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Johann Franz Encke, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Abraham Lincoln ranks 14 out of 20,380. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Sylvester Stallone (1946), Steve Jobs (1955), Andrew Jackson (1767), Marilyn Monroe (1926), and Steven Spielberg (1946). After him are Hillary Clinton (1947), Andrew Johnson (1808), Martin Van Buren (1782), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Martin Scorsese (1942), and James K. Polk (1795).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Abraham Lincoln ranks 6. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), Thomas Jefferson (1743), Jimmy Carter (1924), Richard Nixon (1913), and Andrew Jackson (1767). After him are Hillary Clinton (1947), Andrew Johnson (1808), Martin Van Buren (1782), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), James K. Polk (1795), and Joe Biden (1942).

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