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Ambrose Burnside

1824 - 1881

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Ambrose Everts Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the Civil War and three-time Governor of Rhode Island, as well as being a successful inventor and industrialist. He was responsible for some of the earliest victories in the Eastern theater, but was then promoted above his abilities, and is mainly remembered for two disastrous defeats, at Fredericksburg and the Battle of the Crater (Petersburg). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ambrose Burnside has received more than 1,621,296 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Ambrose Burnside is the 11,087th most popular politician (up from 11,264th in 2019), the 4,030th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,458th in 2019) and the 266th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ambrose Burnside ranks 11,087 out of 19,576. Before him are Zdeněk Fierlinger, Entemena, Osorkon IV, Richard Huelsenbeck, Princess Catherine of Württemberg, and Nina Bocharova. After him are Adalbert II, Margrave of Tuscany, Appius Claudius Pulcher, Nazim al-Qudsi, Mehmed Said Pasha, Patrick Henry, and Leung Chun-ying.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Ambrose Burnside ranks 51. Before him are Vladimir Stasov, Branko Radičević, George Speck, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Emmanuel Frémiet, and Antonio Ghislanzoni. After him are Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Juliusz Kossak, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, and Winfield Scott Hancock. Among people deceased in 1881, Ambrose Burnside ranks 56. Before him are Jim Bridger, August Šenoa, Karl Weyprecht, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and Konstantin Thon. After him are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Tanaka Hisashige, Karl Christian Bruhns, Alexandru G. Golescu, Ercole Dembowski, and Aleksey Pisemsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ambrose Burnside ranks 4,030 out of 20,380. Before him are Marla Maples (1963), Charles Geschke (1939), T-Bone Walker (1910), Jennifer Tilly (1958), Harvey Cushing (1869), and Denis O'Hare (1962). After him are Luther Burbank (1849), Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Patrick Henry (1736), Robert David Hall (1947), Vince Vaughn (1970), and Gary Kildall (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ambrose Burnside ranks 266. Before him are Horace Mann (1796), John W. McCormack (1891), Robert Mueller (1944), Surangel Whipps Jr. (1968), Elihu Yale (1649), and Judith Reisman (1935). After him are Patrick Henry (1736), Robert Smith (1757), Michael Kahn (1935), George M. Dallas (1792), John Nance Garner (1868), and Chuck Hagel (1946).

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