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Elbridge Gerry

1744 - 1814

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Elbridge Gerry ( GHERR-ee; July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat who served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from 1813 until his death in 1814. He is known to be the father and namesake of the political practice of gerrymandering. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally opposed British colonial policy in the 1760s and was active in the early stages of organizing the resistance in the American Revolutionary War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elbridge Gerry has received more than 1,267,011 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Elbridge Gerry is the 8,758th most popular politician (up from 8,880th in 2019), the 2,954th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,169th in 2019) and the 183rd most popular American Politician.

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  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elbridge Gerry ranks 8,758 out of 19,576. Before him are Burna-Buriash II, Henry V, Count of Luxembourg, Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei, William II, Elector of Hesse, Artabanus III of Parthia, and Alfred Meyer. After him are Johan Nygaardsvold, Aga Khan I, Venancio Flores, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, María de Molina, and Appius Claudius Crassus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1744, Elbridge Gerry ranks 13. Before him are Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Abigail Adams, Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Conrad Moench, and Giacomo Quarenghi. After him are Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Marianna Martines, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, and Eise Eisinga. Among people deceased in 1814, Elbridge Gerry ranks 18. Before him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Arthur Phillip, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Aleijadinho, Georg Joseph Vogler, and Matthew Flinders. After him are Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Johan Tobias Sergel, and Johann Friedrich Reichardt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elbridge Gerry ranks 2,954 out of 20,380. Before him are Howlin' Wolf (1910), George W. De Long (1844), Lisa Edelstein (1966), Jane Kaczmarek (1955), Tom Holland (1943), and Robert Stroud (1890). After him are Stephen Foster (1826), Jennifer Jason Leigh (1962), Charles Tilly (1929), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Benjamin Tucker (1854), and Mildred Dresselhaus (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Elbridge Gerry ranks 183. Before him are Edith Roosevelt (1861), Robert H. Jackson (1892), William P. Rogers (1913), Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851), Michael Dukakis (1933), and Winfield Scott (1786). After him are Ronald Inglehart (1934), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Elihu Root (1845), Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), Henry Wilson (1812), and Jesse Ventura (1951).

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