JUDGE

Clarence Thomas

1948 - Today

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Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and has been its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clarence Thomas has received more than 18,315,721 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Clarence Thomas is the 15th most popular judge (up from 19th in 2019), the 3,910th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,351st in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Judge.

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  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JUDGES

Among judges, Clarence Thomas ranks 15 out of 53. Before him are John Marshall, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Earl Warren, Maryanne Trump Barry, Georg Konrad Morgen, and Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou. After him are Thurgood Marshall, Edward Coke, Antonin Scalia, Fathima Beevi, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Clarence Thomas ranks 262. Before him are Susan Blakely, Gerry Adams, José José, Davíð Oddsson, Bernard Thévenet, and Muse Watson. After him are Carol Potter, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Luis Rodríguez, Radislav Krstić, Lulu, and Olivier Blanchard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clarence Thomas ranks 3,910 out of 20,380. Before him are Elizabeth Monroe (1768), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Anne Applebaum (1964), Tommy Franks (1945), John Rogan (1867), and Stuart Rosenberg (1927). After him are Nick Bollettieri (1931), Hope Lange (1933), Kit Carson (1809), Carol Potter (1948), Richard Estes (1932), and Robert Crumb (1943).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Clarence Thomas ranks 6. Before him are Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), John Roberts (1955), John Marshall (1755), Earl Warren (1891), and Maryanne Trump Barry (1937). After him are Thurgood Marshall (1908), Antonin Scalia (1936), Stephen Breyer (1938), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), and Anthony Kennedy (1936).

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