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Elihu Root

1845 - 1937

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Elihu Root (; February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and statesman who served as the 41st United States Secretary of War under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt and the 38th United States Secretary of State under Roosevelt. In both positions as well as a long legal career, he pioneered the American practice of international law. Root is sometimes considered the prototype of the 20th-century political "wise man", advising presidents on a range of foreign and domestic issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elihu Root has received more than 688,327 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Elihu Root is the 8,577th most popular politician (up from 8,813th in 2019), the 3,030th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,278th in 2019) and the 188th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elihu Root ranks 8,577 out of 15,577Before him are Mihailo Vojislavljević, Skandagupta, Kleitias, Louis V, Elector Palatine, Jeanine Áñez, and Iset. After him are Viola of Teschen, Artystone, Bo Gu, Julius Constantius, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, and Butigeidis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Elihu Root ranks 41Before him are Émile Boutroux, Ödön Lechner, Walter Crane, William, Prince of Wied, Eugène Grasset, and Jan Czerski. After him are John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Friedrich Martens, Émile Baudot, Àngel Guimerà, Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Henri Brocard. Among people deceased in 1937, Elihu Root ranks 64Before him are Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Gabriel Pierné, Hugo Meisl, Evgeny Pashukanis, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, and William Sealy Gosset. After him are Paul Émile Chabas, Takeo Wakabayashi, Max von Gallwitz, Mélanie Bonis, Ieronim Uborevich, and Ikki Kita.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elihu Root ranks 3,030 out of 18,182Before him are Thomas A. Hendricks (1819), Patti Page (1927), Blake Lively (1987), Rex Tillerson (1952), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), and Raymond Moody (1944). After him are Eugene Stoner (1922), Rhea Perlman (1948), Roger Myerson (1951), Orson Scott Card (1951), Thomas Cech (1947), and David Petraeus (1952).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Elihu Root ranks 188Before him are Winfield Scott (1786), P. J. Kennedy (1858), Edith Roosevelt (1861), James F. Byrnes (1882), Patrick Henry (1736), and Thomas A. Hendricks (1819). After him are Dean Rusk (1909), Jim Garrison (1921), James S. Sherman (1855), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Dwight F. Davis (1879), and Charles Curtis (1860).