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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 1,058,230 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Dean Rusk is the 8,593rd most popular politician (down from 8,535th in 2019), the 3,039th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,153rd in 2019) and the 189th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dean Rusk ranks 8,593 out of 15,577Before him are Spencer Perceval, Musa of Parthia, Viacheslav Chornovil, Liutpert, Hedju Hor, and Ana Brnabić. After him are Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, Susanna Agnelli, Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Sergei Korsakoff, Hantili II, and Harald Klak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Dean Rusk ranks 121Before him are Gottfried von Cramm, Gene Krupa, Kató Lomb, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Attilio Demaría, and Harro Schulze-Boysen. After him are David Frankfurter, Homi J. Bhabha, Ben Webster, Olga Rubtsova, Barry Goldwater, and Max Baer. Among people deceased in 1994, Dean Rusk ranks 120Before him are Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Claude Akins, Russell Bufalino, Rossano Brazzi, Vazgen I, and Motoo Kimura. After him are Elissa Aalto, Aleksandar Petrović, Lindsay Anderson, Massimo Troisi, Olga Rubtsova, and Roy J. Plunkett.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Rusk ranks 3,039 out of 18,182Before him are Roger Myerson (1951), Orson Scott Card (1951), Thomas Cech (1947), David Petraeus (1952), Kate Chopin (1850), and Patrick Wilson (1973). After him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Bonnie Hunt (1961), Henry Hill (1943), Johnston McCulley (1883), Victor Young (1900), and Clark Gregg (1962).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Dean Rusk ranks 189Before him are P. J. Kennedy (1858), Edith Roosevelt (1861), James F. Byrnes (1882), Patrick Henry (1736), Thomas A. Hendricks (1819), and Elihu Root (1845). After him are Jim Garrison (1921), James S. Sherman (1855), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Charles Curtis (1860), and Robert Gates (1943).