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Arthur Meighen

1874 - 1960

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Arthur Meighen (; June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada from 1920 to 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and from 1941 to 1942. Meighen was born in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Meighen has received more than 411,899 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Arthur Meighen is the 13,546th most popular politician (down from 12,492nd in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Canada (down from 341st in 2019) and the 30th most popular Canadian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arthur Meighen ranks 13,546 out of 15,577Before him are Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Paul Passy, Goodwill Zwelithini, Jiří Paroubek, Viktor Khristenko, and Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow. After him are Chen Chien-jen, William M. Tweed, Louis Borno, John M. Clayton, Pete Ricketts, and Azzeddine Laraki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Arthur Meighen ranks 161Before him are Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Johannes Baumann, Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, Adolf Brand, Lewis Sheldon, and Bill Holland. After him are Oskari Mantere, Jan Černý, Carl Størmer, Lucien Démanet, Janko Jesenský, and Charles R. Knight. Among people deceased in 1960, Arthur Meighen ranks 147Before him are Pedro Arispe, Arthur Benjamin, Willem Elsschot, Lewis Sheldon, Ettore Chimeri, and René Maran. After him are Jamil Mardam Bey, Oscar Pettiford, György Piller, Agustín Sancho, Roelof Klein, and Vladimir Dimitrov.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Arthur Meighen ranks 350 out of 1,350Before him are Albert W. Tucker (1905), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), Samuel Cunard (1787), Terry Jacks (1944), Dean Butler (1956), and Lucile Watson (1879). After him are Chief Dan George (1899), Tom Thomson (1877), Kristin Kreuk (1982), Katherine DeMille (1911), Mort Sahl (1927), and Michel Tremblay (1942).

Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Arthur Meighen ranks 30Before him are William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie (1847), Julie Payette (1963), Brock Chisholm (1896), Myrtle Cook (1902), R. B. Bennett (1870), and Robert Borden (1854). After him are Tommy Burns (1881), Jacques Parizeau (1930), François Legault (1957), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), and Scotty Bowman (1933).