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Charles Grandison Finney

1792 - 1875

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Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Grandison Finney has received more than 872,255 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Charles Grandison Finney is the 3,057th most popular writer (down from 2,813th in 2019), the 3,985th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,602nd in 2019) and the 358th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Grandison Finney ranks 3,057 out of 5,755Before him are Denis Davydov, Maksym Rylsky, Richard Hammond, Leone Ginzburg, Anselm Grün, and Yevhen Hrebinka. After him are Qian Zhongshu, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Jean-François Revel, Gunilla Bergström, Antonio Ghislanzoni, and Jack Higgins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Charles Grandison Finney ranks 36Before him are Ferdinand Christian Baur, Andrés de Santa Cruz, Roderick Murchison, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Manuel Oribe, and George Cruikshank. After him are Moritz Hauptmann, Peter von Hess, Johann Georg Hiedler, Martin Ohm, José Joaquín de Herrera, and Jeanne Jugan. Among people deceased in 1875, Charles Grandison Finney ranks 49Before him are John C. Breckinridge, Charles Elliot, Louise Farrenc, Georg Herwegh, Prosper Guéranger, and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. After him are Johann Karl Rodbertus, Charles Kingsley, Francisco Coll Guitart, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Richard Christopher Carrington, and Carl Jakob Sundevall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Grandison Finney ranks 3,985 out of 18,182Before him are Earl Boen (1945), Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Huey Lewis (1950), Lynn Cohen (1933), John Nance Garner (1868), and Michael Nesmith (1942). After him are Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943), Stella Stevens (1936), Jack Cassidy (1927), Huey Long (1893), Joe E. Tata (1936), and Anthony Franciosa (1928).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Charles Grandison Finney ranks 358Before him are James Rollins (1961), Fanny Crosby (1820), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Glen Cook (1944), and Robert Bly (1926). After him are Glen A. Larson (1937), Gregory Benford (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Bill Bryson (1951), John Perkins (1945), and Spencer Johnson (1938).