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Dred Scott

1795 - 1858

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Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dred Scott has received more than 3,449,021 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Dred Scott is the 3,400th most popular politician (up from 3,458th in 2019), the 1,072nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,134th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Politician.

Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom and that of his wife and children. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. This decision was overturned by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dred Scott ranks 3,400 out of 19,576. Before him are Jack Kemp, Devlet I Giray, Alexander Balas, John Corvinus, Fernando de la Rúa, and Julia Soaemias. After him are Yury of Moscow, Guo Jia, Aşub Sultan, Siamun, Judah ha-Nasi, and Emil Maurice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Dred Scott ranks 10. Before him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, John Keats, Thomas Carlyle, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Antonio José de Sucre, and Ary Scheffer. After him are Alexander Griboyedov, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, John William Polidori, Gabriel Lamé, and Saverio Mercadante. Among people deceased in 1858, Dred Scott ranks 13. Before him are Johannes Peter Müller, Karl Thomas Mozart, Anton Diabelli, John Snow, Ary Scheffer, and Aimé Bonpland. After him are Joseph Karl Stieler, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, and Mustafa Reşid Pasha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dred Scott ranks 1,072 out of 20,380. Before him are Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Philip Zimbardo (1933), Jack Kemp (1935), Virginia Satir (1916), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), and Joel Schumacher (1939). After him are Hilary Putnam (1926), Michelle Phillips (1944), Steve Carell (1962), Brian Dennehy (1938), Percival Lowell (1855), and David Caruso (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Dred Scott ranks 88. Before him are Jill Biden (1951), Barbara Bush (1925), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Éamon de Valera (1882), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), and Jack Kemp (1935). After him are Janet Yellen (1946), Mike Pence (1959), Laura Bush (1946), Meir Kahane (1932), Andrew Dickson White (1832), and Gina Haspel (1956).

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