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Arlen Specter

1930 - 2012

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Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arlen Specter has received more than 1,740,684 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Arlen Specter is the 16,080th most popular politician (down from 14,377th in 2019), the 11,479th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,555th in 2019) and the 760th most popular American Politician.

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  • 39.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arlen Specter ranks 16,080 out of 15,577. Before him are María Dolores de Cospedal, Leonard Orban, Julia Klöckner, Srgjan Kerim, Andrew Holness, and Parmanand Jha. After him are Eliot Spitzer, Mohammed Yusuf, Mike Mansfield, Ram Jethmalani, Ron Klain, and Nika Gilauri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Arlen Specter ranks 536. Before him are Jim Nabors, Lynden Pindling, Norman Podhoretz, Annie Ross, Edward Seaga, and Vladimir Ryzhkin. After him are Troy Ruttman, Luki Botha, Tom Mboya, Barry Unsworth, K. Balachander, and Nicholas F. Brady. Among people deceased in 2012, Arlen Specter ranks 418. Before him are Frederica Sagor Maas, Don Cornelius, Stephen Dunham, Alex Karras, Al Freeman Jr., and Milt Campbell. After him are Elizabeth Catlett, Ronnie Montrose, Eduard Ivanov, Robert Bork, Les Leston, and Thomas Kinkade.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arlen Specter ranks 11,479 out of 18,182. Before him are Sonja Sohn (1964), Ian Anthony Dale (1978), Steven Hawley (1951), Drew Fuller (1980), Vanessa Bell Calloway (1957), and Kate Spade (1962). After him are Francis Parkman (1823), William Bendix (1906), Matthew Barney (1967), Jimmy DeGrasso (1963), Jeff Nathanson (1965), and Eliot Spitzer (1959).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Arlen Specter ranks 760. Before him are Richard Bassett (1745), Robert J. Bentley (1943), Dennis Hastert (1942), Edward Seaga (1930), Mike Enzi (1944), and Roger Wicker (1951). After him are Eliot Spitzer (1959), Mike Mansfield (1903), Ron Klain (1961), Edward Rutledge (1749), Alberto Gonzales (1955), and John Davis Lodge (1903).

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