POLITICIAN

Alexander H. Stephens

1812 - 1883

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician who served as the first and only vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, and later as the 50th governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state of Georgia in the United States House of Representatives before and after the Civil War. Stephens attended Franklin College and established a legal practice in his hometown of Crawfordville, Georgia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander H. Stephens has received more than 1,626,275 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alexander H. Stephens is the 12,463rd most popular politician (down from 12,302nd in 2019), the 4,856th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,276th in 2019) and the 315th most popular American Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander H. Stephens ranks 12,463 out of 19,576. Before him are Naram-Sin of Assyria, Song Ping, Seocheon of Goguryeo, João de Castro, Gheorghe Bibescu, and Michel Martelly. After him are Alberto Lleras Camargo, Péter Boross, Anatoli Firsov, Abd al-Haqq II, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, and Igor Matovič.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Alexander H. Stephens ranks 50. Before him are Luigi Carlo Farini, Rudolf von Alt, Ercole Dembowski, Charles Duclerc, Yevhen Hrebinka, and Nikolay Zinin. After him are Walthère Frère-Orban, George Allman, Carl Christian Hall, Juraj Dobrila, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, and Johanne Luise Heiberg. Among people deceased in 1883, Alexander H. Stephens ranks 56. Before him are Butrus al-Bustani, Robert Volkmann, Francesco de Sanctis, Mahmud Nedim Pasha, Heinrich von Ferstel, and Oswald Heer. After him are Sven Nilsson, Joachim Barrande, Edward Sabine, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Alexandros Koumoundouros, and Samo Chalupka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alexander H. Stephens ranks 4,856 out of 20,380. Before him are Sam Wanamaker (1919), Chester Thompson (1948), MC Hammer (1962), Haddon Sundblom (1899), Helen Stephens (1918), and Michael Weatherly (1968). After him are Richard Lynch (1940), Oliver Kirk (1884), Chris Carter (1956), Fay Bainter (1893), Sam Webb (1945), and Gregory Itzin (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Alexander H. Stephens ranks 315. Before him are William Perry (1927), Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), Sargent Shriver (1915), John Hay (1838), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), and Oliver North (1943). After him are Sam Webb (1945), Bobby Seale (1936), Edmund Randolph (1753), Fred Thompson (1942), Bill Richardson (1947), and Joseph Brant (1742).

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