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Cordell Hull

1871 - 1955

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Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) was an American politician from Tennessee and the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during most of World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cordell Hull has received more than 1,084,939 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Cordell Hull is the 4,072nd most popular politician (down from 3,278th in 2019), the 1,287th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,080th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Politician.

Cordell Hull was the longest-serving Secretary of State in American history. He is most famous for negotiating the United Nations Charter and the Bretton Woods Agreement.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cordell Hull ranks 4,072 out of 19,576. Before him are Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Guy, Count of Flanders, Moša Pijade, Fouad Siniora, Istämi, and Duke Huan of Qi. After him are Emperor Wu of Liang, Ferdinand Čatloš, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Artabanus IV of Parthia, Eleanor de' Medici, and Parysatis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Cordell Hull ranks 28. Before him are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Stjepan Radić, Émile Borel, Maurice Garin, and William Stern. After him are Leonid Andreyev, Ernst Zermelo, Walter Bradford Cannon, Nicolae Iorga, Princess Hélène of Orléans, and Lyonel Feininger. Among people deceased in 1955, Cordell Hull ranks 35. Before him are Michael Chekhov, Vasily Blokhin, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, and Princess Clémentine of Belgium. After him are Alexander Wienerberger, John Mott, Alexandros Papagos, Yves Tanguy, Theda Bara, and Henri Delaunay.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cordell Hull ranks 1,287 out of 20,380. Before him are Frederic Edwin Church (1826), John Dickinson (1732), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Timothy Leary (1920), Susan Hayward (1917), and J. Michael Bishop (1936). After him are Michael Connelly (1956), Joe Mantegna (1947), Gillian Anderson (1968), John Saxon (1935), Henry Hathaway (1898), and Ray Ewry (1873).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Cordell Hull ranks 102. Before him are Susan Wojcicki (1968), George Papandreou (1952), Allen Dulles (1893), Tecumseh (1768), Paul Ryan (1970), and John Dickinson (1732). After him are Eliot Ness (1903), John Foster Dulles (1888), Charles G. Dawes (1865), Aaron Burr (1756), George Clinton (1739), and Red Cloud (1822).

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