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Alben W. Barkley

1877 - 1956

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Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905, he was elected to local offices and in 1912 as a U.S. representative. Serving in both houses of Congress, he was a liberal Democrat, supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic agenda and foreign policy. Endorsing Prohibition and denouncing parimutuel betting, Barkley narrowly lost the Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1923 to fellow representative J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alben W. Barkley has received more than 1,465,597 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Alben W. Barkley is the 5,565th most popular politician (up from 6,260th in 2019), the 1,906th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,185th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alben W. Barkley ranks 5,565 out of 15,577. Before him are Ichirō Hatoyama, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, Maria Miloslavskaya, Yang Kaihui, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, and Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria. After him are George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Toqta, Demchugdongrub, Langdarma, Hwang Kyo-ahn, and Abraham Kuyper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Alben W. Barkley ranks 41. Before him are Mykola Leontovych, Emil Abderhalden, Otto Gross, Henry Norris Russell, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Ananda Coomaraswamy. After him are Endre Ady, James Jeans, Raymond Roussel, Sadao Araki, Vasil Kolarov, and Jesse Livermore. Among people deceased in 1956, Alben W. Barkley ranks 50. Before him are Art Tatum, Mahmud Barzanji, Hiram Bingham III, Erich Kleiber, Otto Schmidt, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch. After him are Thomas J. Watson, Pío Baroja, Walter Sydney Adams, Drastamat Kanayan, Michael Ventris, and Alexander Fadeyev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alben W. Barkley ranks 1,906 out of 18,182. Before him are Ed Lauter (1938), Michael P. Anderson (1959), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), Al Oerter (1936), Malcolm Glazer (1928), and Edsel Ford (1893). After him are Carole King (1942), Robby Krieger (1946), Josiah Warren (1798), Roger Corman (1926), Joan Rivers (1933), and Harold Garfinkel (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Alben W. Barkley ranks 120. Before him are Mitt Romney (1947), Clement Greenberg (1909), Bess Truman (1885), Kalākaua (1836), Pontiac (1714), and John Hancock (1737). After him are Hubert Humphrey (1911), Spiro Agnew (1918), Ben Carson (1951), Bob Dole (1923), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), and Sam Houston (1793).

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