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Elbridge Gerry

1744 - 1814

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Elbridge Gerry (; 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. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after him. 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 1,176,706 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Elbridge Gerry is the 8,907th most popular politician (down from 7,589th in 2019), the 3,177th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,700th in 2019) and the 198th most popular American Politician.

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  • 54

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  • 2.50

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elbridge Gerry ranks 8,907 out of 15,577. Before him are Appius Claudius Crassus, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Kocheril R. Narayanan, Eugen Schauman, Lorenzo Tiepolo, and Gisela of Burgundy. After him are Gaius Aurelius Cotta, Chea Sim, Johan Ferrier, Pausanias of Macedon, Huai of Xia, and Alexander Novikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1744, Elbridge Gerry ranks 14. Before him are Abigail Adams, Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Marianna Martines, and Giacomo Quarenghi. After him are Conrad Moench, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Nikolay Novikov, and Johann III Bernoulli. Among people deceased in 1814, Elbridge Gerry ranks 21. Before him are Georg Joseph Vogler, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Aleijadinho, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Arthur Phillip, and William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe. After him are Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Johan Tobias Sergel, Charles Burney, and Jean Reynier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elbridge Gerry ranks 3,177 out of 18,182. Before him are Frank Beard (1949), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Howard S. Becker (1928), John Barth (1930), DMX (1970), and Abe Vigoda (1921). After him are Albert Ghiorso (1915), GG Allin (1956), Gordon Mitchell (1923), Neil Simon (1927), Paul Robeson (1898), and Dick Wolf (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Elbridge Gerry ranks 198. Before him are Marie Smith Jones (1918), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Charles Curtis (1860), Robert Gates (1943), Kamehameha V (1830), and Barry Goldwater (1909). After him are Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851), Steve Bannon (1953), Levi P. Morton (1824), James Forrestal (1892), William A. Wheeler (1819), and Kamehameha IV (1834).

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