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Bob Menendez

1954 - Today

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Robert Menendez (; born January 1, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from New Jersey from 2006 until his resignation in 2024 following his conviction on 16 counts in a political corruption case. A member of the Democratic Party and the Cuban–American lobby, he was first appointed to the Senate by Governor Jon Corzine, and chaired the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 2013 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2023. In 1974, at age 20, Menendez was elected to the Union City School District's Board of Education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Menendez has received more than 4,783,306 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Bob Menendez is the 14,850th most popular politician (down from 14,338th in 2019), the 7,212th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,730th in 2019) and the 468th most popular American Politician.

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  • 4.8M

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  • 47.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bob Menendez ranks 14,850 out of 19,576. Before him are Uri Ariel, Ragna Nielsen, Mia Mottley, Pik Botha, Jules de Trooz, and Mykolas Biržiška. After him are Luis Muñoz Marín, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, José María de Achá, Álvaro Magaña, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, and Lyudmila Pakhomova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Bob Menendez ranks 352. Before him are Robert Carradine, Rahim Ademi, Michael Badalucco, Guy Kawasaki, Alex Salmond, and Graziano Rossi. After him are Einar Már Guðmundsson, Medha Patkar, Piero Gros, Brother Alois, Patrick St. Esprit, and Jeffrey Combs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Menendez ranks 7,212 out of 20,380. Before him are Elaine May (1932), Gloria Jones (1945), Michael E. Brown (1965), Slim Harpo (1924), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), and Lucinda Williams (1937). After him are Jocelyn Brando (1919), Taylor Kinney (1981), Ginnifer Goodwin (1978), Kevin Tighe (1944), Robert Armstrong (1890), and Duane Hanson (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Bob Menendez ranks 468. Before him are Thaddeus Stevens (1792), Larry O'Brien (1917), Lucien Carr (1925), Little Crow (1810), Richard H. Truly (1937), and Harry Reid (1939). After him are Lucy Webb Hayes (1831), Oliver Ellsworth (1745), William J. Casey (1913), Jane Pierce (1806), Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876), and James Spriggs Payne (1819).

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