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Ed Lee

1952 - 2017

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Edwin Mah Lee (May 5, 1952 – December 12, 2017) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco from 2011 until his death in 2017. Born in Seattle to Chinese American parents, Lee was a member of the Democratic Party. He took office as San Francisco city administrator in 2005 and was appointed on January 11, 2011, by the Board of Supervisors to serve out the remaining term of former mayor Gavin Newsom after Newsom resigned to become Lieutenant Governor of California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Lee has received more than 360,215 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Ed Lee is the 17,210th most popular politician (down from 15,858th in 2019), the 11,668th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,032nd in 2019) and the 777th most popular American Politician.

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  • 41.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ed Lee ranks 17,210 out of 19,576. Before him are Hiram Fong, Thomas Norton, Isidore Mvouba, Mark Hanna, Vadym Prystaiko, and Balram Jakhar. After him are Abraham Beame, Mariusz Błaszczak, Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, Andris Šķēle, and Marjan Šarec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Ed Lee ranks 633. Before him are Vera Anisimova, David Amess, Chuck Leavell, Allan Wells, Nora Dunn, and Javier Cárdenas. After him are António Lima Pereira, Arkadiusz Godel, Linda Woolverton, Wendy Turnbull, Hans Abrahamsen, and Laraine Newman. Among people deceased in 2017, Ed Lee ranks 568. Before him are Jim Nabors, Howard Hodgkin, George Steele, Carlos Gómez, Valery Asapov, and Zdravko Hebel. After him are Connie Hawkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Carme Chacón, Ricardo Vidal, Norma McCorvey, and Miguel Ángel Loayza.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed Lee ranks 11,668 out of 20,380. Before him are James Moody (1925), Sammy Lee (1920), Marvin Stalder (1905), Mark Hanna (1837), John Cody (1907), and Mal Whitfield (1924). After him are Christina Koch (1979), John Cameron Mitchell (1963), Andy Jassy (1968), Sarah Frances Whiting (1847), Jodi Picoult (1966), and Jean Muir (1911).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ed Lee ranks 777. Before him are Jane Irwin Harrison (1804), Tom Carper (1947), Caleb Cushing (1800), Mike Mansfield (1903), Hiram Fong (1906), and Mark Hanna (1837). After him are Laura Kelly (1950), Timothy Geithner (1961), Harold L. Ickes (1874), Chris Coons (1963), Gene Okerlund (1942), and Charles Foster (1828).

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