1954 - Today
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and the first African-American governor of New York. Following his graduation from Hofstra Law School, Paterson worked in the District Attorney's office of Queens County, New York, and on the staff of Manhattan borough president David Dinkins. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Paterson has received more than 2,033,607 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). David Paterson is the 15,856th most popular politician (down from 13,956th in 2019), the 10,922nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,453rd in 2019) and the 707th most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, David Paterson ranks 15,856 out of 15,577. Before him are John B. Floyd, Lansana Kouyaté, Sangay Ngedup, John C. Stennis, Yua Mikami, and Andris Šķēle. After him are Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye, Bongbong Marcos, Pavel Gubarev, K. Chandrashekar Rao, Abraham Baldwin, and Mohamed Hussein Roble.
1806 - 1863
HPI: 40.00
Rank: 15,850
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 15,851
1953 - Present
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 15,852
1901 - 1995
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 15,853
1993 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 15,854
1958 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 15,855
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 15,856
1949 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 15,857
1957 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 15,858
1983 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 15,859
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 15,860
1754 - 1807
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 15,861
1963 - Present
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 15,862
Among people born in 1954, David Paterson ranks 502. Before him are Don Coscarelli, Wim Crusio, Shigeharu Ueki, Umberto Guidoni, Hans-Henrik Ørsted, and Stephen Furst. After him are K. Chandrashekar Rao, Ulrich Walter, Yuji Takada, Freddie Prinze, Anuradha Paudwal, and Karl Schnabl.
1954 - Present
HPI: 40.28
Rank: 496
1954 - Present
HPI: 40.25
Rank: 497
1954 - Present
HPI: 40.18
Rank: 498
1954 - Present
HPI: 40.14
Rank: 499
1954 - Present
HPI: 40.13
Rank: 500
1954 - 2017
HPI: 40.00
Rank: 501
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 502
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 503
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.93
Rank: 504
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 505
1954 - 1977
HPI: 39.77
Rank: 506
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.77
Rank: 507
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.72
Rank: 508
Among people born in United States, David Paterson ranks 10,922 out of 18,182. Before him are John C. Stennis (1901), Brad Anderson (1964), Tina Brooks (1932), Phillip Griffiths (1938), Todd Armstrong (1937), and Kevin Michael Richardson (1964). After him are Virginia Weidler (1927), Michael Trevino (1985), Greg Bell (1930), Duane Swanson (1913), Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815), and Chandler Riggs (1999).
1901 - 1995
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 10,916
1964 - Present
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 10,917
1932 - 1974
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 10,918
1938 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 10,919
1937 - 1992
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 10,920
1964 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 10,921
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 10,922
1927 - 1968
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 10,923
1985 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 10,924
1930 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 10,925
1913 - 2000
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 10,926
1815 - 1882
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 10,927
1999 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 10,928
Among politicians born in United States, David Paterson ranks 707. Before him are Howard Dean (1948), Bill Weld (1945), Jeanne Shaheen (1947), Robert J. Walker (1801), John B. Floyd (1806), and John C. Stennis (1901). After him are Abraham Baldwin (1754), Patrick M. Shanahan (1962), Cory Booker (1969), Liz Cheney (1966), George Voinovich (1936), and Gifford Pinchot (1865).
1948 - Present
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 701
1945 - Present
HPI: 40.09
Rank: 702
1947 - Present
HPI: 40.07
Rank: 703
1801 - 1869
HPI: 40.01
Rank: 704
1806 - 1863
HPI: 40.00
Rank: 705
1901 - 1995
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 706
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.98
Rank: 707
1754 - 1807
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 708
1962 - Present
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 709
1969 - Present
HPI: 39.94
Rank: 710
1966 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 711
1936 - 2016
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 712
1865 - 1946
HPI: 39.87
Rank: 713