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Edmund Barton

1849 - 1920

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Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920) was an Australian statesman, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, before resigning in 1903 to become a founding member of the High Court of Australia, on which he served until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Barton has received more than 925,440 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Edmund Barton is the 12,234th most popular politician (down from 11,751st in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Australia (up from 150th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Australian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edmund Barton ranks 12,234 out of 15,577Before him are Oleksiy Honcharuk, Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, Mir Qasim, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, Aeropus II of Macedon, and Eudokia Dekapolitissa. After him are Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild, Ventidius Cumanus, Ceolwulf of Wessex, José Bustamante y Rivero, Johan Ehrnrooth, and Ramón Freire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Edmund Barton ranks 75Before him are George Washington Williams, Giovanni Passannante, Alfred Kleiner, Józef Chełmoński, Ferdinand Brunetière, and Carl Fredrik Hill. After him are William Merritt Chase, William Knox D'Arcy, Christian Rohlfs, Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Alexander von Krobatin, and Johan Kjeldahl. Among people deceased in 1920, Edmund Barton ranks 78Before him are Heinrich Lammasch, Jaan Poska, Norman Lockyer, Augusto Righi, Alexandru Macedonski, and Nasrullah Khan. After him are John Gilbert Baker, Moritz Cantor, Dan Andersson, Germanus V of Constantinople, Ömer Seyfettin, and Theodor Philipsen.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Edmund Barton ranks 129 out of 925Before him are Portia de Rossi (1973), Robert Menzies (1894), James Harrison (1936), Rose Byrne (1979), Helen Reddy (1941), and Anthony LaPaglia (1959). After him are Joel Edgerton (1974), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Radha Mitchell (1973), Don Bradman (1908), Phoebe Tonkin (1989), and John Farrow (1904).

Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Edmund Barton ranks 10Before him are David Hurley (1953), John Curtin (1885), Kevin Rudd (1957), Malcolm Turnbull (1954), Bob Hawke (1929), and Robert Menzies (1894). After him are Gough Whitlam (1916), Malcolm Fraser (1930), Dawn Fraser (1937), William Deane (1931), Paul Keating (1944), and Alfred Deakin (1856).