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Bainbridge Colby

1869 - 1950

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Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 – April 11, 1950) was an American politician and attorney who was a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Colby was a Republican until he helped co-found the National Progressive Party in 1912; he ran for multiple offices as a member of that party, but never won. Colby served as Secretary of State from February 1920 until 1921, at a time when President Woodrow Wilson was medically handicapped and largely out of touch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bainbridge Colby has received more than 109,720 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Bainbridge Colby is the 13,661st most popular politician (down from 13,219th in 2019), the 6,672nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,597th in 2019) and the 414th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bainbridge Colby ranks 13,661 out of 15,577Before him are J. William Fulbright, Seuthes II, William Camden, Elaine Chao, Evangelos Venizelos, and Ptolemaeus of Commagene. After him are José María Castro Madriz, Pascual Madoz, Manuel Merino, Numa Droz, Michael Portillo, and David Padilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Bainbridge Colby ranks 124Before him are August Blom, Carlo Airoldi, Alice Hamilton, Sergey Chaplygin, Levon Shant, and Constantin Angelescu. After him are Helene Stöcker, Harry Stafford, Henriette Roland Holst, Bill Haywood, Juan Bautista Pérez, and Mehmet Emin Yurdakul. Among people deceased in 1950, Bainbridge Colby ranks 138Before him are Maurice Costello, Luise Fleck, Ransom E. Olds, Joe Fry, Antonina Nezhdanova, and Pedro Parages. After him are Arthur L. Newton, Alice Kober, Charles Bennett, Edwin Foster Coddington, Alexandros Diomidis, and Louis Wilkins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bainbridge Colby ranks 6,672 out of 18,182Before him are Bennett Miller (1966), Eddie Cheever (1958), Michael D. Coe (1929), Brian Littrell (1975), Brian G. Hutton (1935), and Elizabeth Hartman (1943). After him are Frederick Seitz (1911), Henry Clay Frick (1849), Rush Limbaugh (1951), Steve Forrest (1925), Ann Druyan (1949), and Rachel Chagall (1952).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Bainbridge Colby ranks 414Before him are Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), Florence Bascom (1862), Timothy Pickering (1745), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Jane Pierce (1806), and J. William Fulbright (1905). After him are Gary Locke (1950), Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933), Johnny Isakson (1944), David Rice Atchison (1807), Edwin Stanton (1814), and Enoch L. Johnson (1883).