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Edwin Stanton

1814 - 1869

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Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. secretary of war under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory. However, he was criticized by many Union generals, who perceived him as overcautious and a micromanager. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Stanton has received more than 1,695,732 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Edwin Stanton is the 14,159th most popular politician (down from 13,736th in 2019), the 6,376th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,812th in 2019) and the 411th most popular American Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edwin Stanton ranks 14,159 out of 19,576. Before him are Lyudmila Narusova, Algernon Sidney, Ivan Capelli, Zoran Zaev, Alois Estermann, and Ċensu Tabone. After him are Ahmose-Henuttamehu, Hermann von Stein, Henri Masson, Mustafa Khalil, Pedro María de Anaya, and Muhammad Gaddafi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Edwin Stanton ranks 58. Before him are Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Hervé Faye, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Hermann, Prince of Wied, Adolph Tidemand, and Franz Josef Ruprecht. After him are Edmond Frémy, Felix Lichnowsky, Oskar Kolberg, Nicolaas Beets, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, and Dimitrios Valvis. Among people deceased in 1869, Edwin Stanton ranks 47. Before him are Otto Jahn, Gheorghe Asachi, Carlo Cattaneo, Antonie Brentano, Jean René Constant Quoy, and Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov. After him are Pyotr Anjou, George Peabody, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, Andreas Kalvos, Bertalan Szemere, and Alexander Dreyschock.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Stanton ranks 6,376 out of 20,380. Before him are George Murdock (1897), Jonathan Carroll (1949), Melinda Dillon (1939), Bo Goldman (1932), Mother Angelica (1923), and Louis Calhern (1895). After him are Corbin Bleu (1989), Helene Hanff (1916), Joseph Sargent (1925), Robert Ryman (1930), Jane Colden (1724), and Thelma Todd (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Edwin Stanton ranks 411. Before him are Edward Livingston (1764), Sarah Childress Polk (1803), Paul H. O'Neill (1935), Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), Marvin Hart (1876), and Stephen Hopkins (1707). After him are George Tenet (1953), Eugene Burton Ely (1886), Charles Bolden (1946), Virginia Hall (1906), John Armstrong Jr. (1758), and Timothy Pickering (1745).

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