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Caleb Cushing

1800 - 1879

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Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800 – January 2, 1879) was an American Democratic politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts and the 23rd United States Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. From 1874 until 1877, he was the United States Minister to Spain. Cushing was an eager proponent of territorial and commercial expansion, especially regarding the acquisition of Texas, Oregon and Cuba. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caleb Cushing has received more than 161,337 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Caleb Cushing is the 17,199th most popular politician (down from 15,679th in 2019), the 11,651st most popular biography from United States (down from 10,590th in 2019) and the 773rd most popular American Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Caleb Cushing ranks 17,199 out of 19,576. Before him are Mike Moore, Catherine Tizard, Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, Riikka Purra, Björn Þórðarson, and Valery Asapov. After him are Mike Mansfield, Leni Robredo, Kai Wegner, Claude Onesta, Hiram Fong, and Thomas Norton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Caleb Cushing ranks 82. Before him are George Bancroft, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Juan Francisco de Vidal, George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, Ali Shah Durrani, and Peter the Aleut. After him are Edward Bouverie Pusey, and Henry Hutchinson. Among people deceased in 1879, Caleb Cushing ranks 68. Before him are Juan Antonio Pezet, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, George Caleb Bingham, Jacob Abbott, Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera, and John Adams Dix. After him are Angelina Grimké, Sarah Josepha Hale, Henry Sewell, William Allen, and Zachariah Chandler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Caleb Cushing ranks 11,651 out of 20,380. Before him are Foy Draper (1911), Fiona Apple (1977), June Marlowe (1903), Robert Riskin (1897), Kenneth Lonergan (1962), and Leamon King (1936). After him are Mike Mansfield (1903), Caroline Williams (1957), S. E. Hinton (1948), Arnie Oliver (1907), Roger Revelle (1909), and Tory Belleci (1970).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Caleb Cushing ranks 773. Before him are Gaylord Nelson (1916), Samuel Osgood (1747), Amy Klobuchar (1960), Stuart Symington (1901), Jane Irwin Harrison (1804), and Tom Carper (1947). After him are Mike Mansfield (1903), Hiram Fong (1906), Mark Hanna (1837), Ed Lee (1952), Laura Kelly (1950), and Timothy Geithner (1961).

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