POLITICIAN

Dean Rusk

1909 - 1994

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David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994) was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving secretary of state after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration. He had been a high government official in the 1940s and early 1950s, as well as the head of a leading foundation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dean Rusk has received more than 1,148,652 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 35 in 2019). Dean Rusk is the 9,165th most popular politician (down from 8,568th in 2019), the 3,141st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,032nd in 2019) and the 201st most popular American Politician.

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  • 60.79

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dean Rusk ranks 9,165 out of 19,576. Before him are Victoria Woodhull, Kazys Grinius, Margaret Douglas, Manuel III of Trebizond, Phạm Minh Chính, and Pribislav of Mecklenburg. After him are William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Sabin of Bulgaria, Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Hosokawa Tadaoki, and Yehuda Ashlag.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Dean Rusk ranks 126. Before him are Shigeo Shingo, Dana Andrews, Lamberto Maggiorani, Stephen Cole Kleene, Juan José Nogués, and Jerzy Andrzejewski. After him are David Frankfurter, Reuven Shiloah, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Seichō Matsumoto, W. Montgomery Watt, and Géza Toldi. Among people deceased in 1994, Dean Rusk ranks 126. Before him are Manfred Wörner, Claude Akins, Derek Jarman, Zail Singh, Motoo Kimura, and Stephen Cole Kleene. After him are John Edward Williams, Frederick Copleston, Billy Wright, Joe Pass, William Conrad, and Stanisław Maczek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Rusk ranks 3,141 out of 20,380. Before him are Coretta Scott King (1927), Edwin Moses (1955), Allan Kaprow (1927), John B. Kelly Sr. (1889), Marie Tharp (1920), and Victoria Woodhull (1838). After him are Janet Jagan (1920), Wilder Penfield (1891), Fred Rogers (1928), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Dabbs Greer (1917), and Lindsey Buckingham (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Dean Rusk ranks 201. Before him are Bob Dole (1923), James S. Sherman (1855), George Koval (1913), Daniel Inouye (1924), John B. Kelly Sr. (1889), and Victoria Woodhull (1838). After him are Janet Jagan (1920), Leon Panetta (1938), Charles J. Guiteau (1841), James F. Byrnes (1882), Edith Head (1897), and Garret Hobart (1844).

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