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POLITICIAN

Crazy Horse

1840 - 1877

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Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó [tˣaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ], lit. 'His-Horse-Is-Crazy'; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the Black Hills War on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866, in which he acted as a decoy, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, in which he led a war party to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people. In September 1877, four months after surrendering to U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Crazy Horse has received more than 4,866,379 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Crazy Horse is the 1,624th most popular politician (down from 1,306th in 2019), the 491st most popular biography from United States (down from 432nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Politician.

Crazy Horse was a Lakota Sioux warrior who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Crazy Horse was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on September 5, 1877.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Crazy Horse ranks 1,624 out of 15,577Before him are Henry, King of Portugal, Alaric II, Uzziah, Olybrius, Celâl Bayar, and Libius Severus. After him are Pharamond, Ptolemy IX Lathyros, Empress Lü, Axel Oxenstierna, Josef Kramer, and Šuppiluliuma I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Crazy Horse ranks 14Before him are Carlota of Mexico, Alphonse Daudet, Carl Menger, Ernst Abbe, John Boyd Dunlop, and Edward Drinker Cope. After him are Father Damien, August Bebel, Thomas Hardy, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Edward Whymper. Among people deceased in 1877, Crazy Horse ranks 6Before him are Gustave Courbet, Brigham Young, Adolphe Thiers, Saigō Takamori, and Urbain Le Verrier. After him are Henry Fox Talbot, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and Hermann Grassmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Crazy Horse ranks 491 out of 18,182Before him are Bernie Madoff (1938), Glen Campbell (1936), John Coltrane (1926), David Copperfield (1956), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), and Prince (1958). After him are Warren Beatty (1937), Ronald Wayne (1934), Lou Reed (1942), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), John Huston (1906), and Liza Minnelli (1946).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Crazy Horse ranks 60Before him are Millard Fillmore (1800), Colin Powell (1937), John Tyler (1790), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Sarah Palin (1964), and Chester A. Arthur (1829). After him are John Kerry (1943), Bernie Sanders (1941), James E. Webb (1906), Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Boris Johnson (1964), and Jim Mattis (1950).