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Ambrose Burnside

1824 - 1881

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Ambrose Everett 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 1,532,407 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ambrose Burnside is the 11,298th most popular politician (down from 10,803rd in 2019), the 4,470th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,550th in 2019) and the 277th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ambrose Burnside ranks 11,298 out of 15,577. Before him are Mehmet Ali Talat, Prabowo Subianto, Bakili Muluzi, Anaxidamus, Carlos Mesa, and Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla. After him are Krešimir III of Croatia, Quim Torra, Orio Mastropiero, Gabriel Terra, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Yusuf Lule.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Ambrose Burnside ranks 47. Before him are Pierre-Émile Martin, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Alexander William Williamson, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, and Branko Radičević. After him are Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Winfield Scott Hancock, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Ōmura Masujirō, and Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1881, Ambrose Burnside ranks 56. Before him are Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Konstantin Thon, Karl Christian Bruhns, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and Mary Seacole. After him are Aleksey Pisemsky, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Andrei Zhelyabov, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Robert Mallet, and Maurice Raynaud.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ambrose Burnside ranks 4,470 out of 18,182. Before him are Courtney Hodges (1887), John Trumbull (1756), James Kottak (1962), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), E. G. Marshall (1914), and Ed Heinemann (1908). After him are William Porter (1926), Thom Barry (1950), Holt McCallany (1963), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Pat Benatar (1953), and Neal McDonough (1966).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ambrose Burnside ranks 277. Before him are Ed Koch (1924), Jim Gray (1944), Elihu Yale (1649), Robert Mueller (1944), Elizabeth Monroe (1768), and Sanford B. Dole (1844). After him are Jack Sharkey (1902), Robert Byrd (1917), Bruce Rauner (1957), Eric Shinseki (1942), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), and Henry Paulson (1946).

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