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Eric Shinseki

1942 - Today

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Eric Ken Shinseki (; Japanese: 新関 健, romanized: Shinseki Ken, born 28 November 1942) is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014) and the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999–2003). Shinseki is a veteran of two tours of combat in the Vietnam War, in which he was awarded three Bronze Star Medals for valor and two Purple Hearts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Shinseki has received more than 1,009,646 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Shinseki is the 13,462nd most popular politician (down from 11,357th in 2019), the 5,692nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,517th in 2019) and the 366th most popular American Politician.

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  • 23

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  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eric Shinseki ranks 13,462 out of 19,576. Before him are Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf Pasha, Eliza McCardle Johnson, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Audeca, Wang Yang, and Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones. After him are Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Paweł Adamowicz, Walter Breisky, Carl Vaugoin, Publius Decius Mus, and Manuel de la Peña y Peña.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Eric Shinseki ranks 387. Before him are Country Joe McDonald, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, Michael Eisner, Celso Amorim, José Serra, and Reiner Schöne. After him are Krister Kristensson, Tammy Faye Messner, Galina Kulakova, Uğur Mumcu, Mike Resnick, and Gérard Pirès.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Shinseki ranks 5,692 out of 20,380. Before him are Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810), John C. Lilly (1915), Tommy Rettig (1941), Tony Joe White (1943), Mike Stern (1953), and James B. Donovan (1916). After him are Sandra Bernhard (1955), Michael Spinks (1956), John Patrick Foley (1935), Otis Davis (1932), George Calnan (1900), and Elizabeth Mitchell (1970).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Eric Shinseki ranks 366. Before him are Eugene McCarthy (1916), Chief Joseph (1840), J. William Fulbright (1905), Henry Knox (1750), Roger Sherman (1721), and Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810). After him are Vince Lombardi (1913), Sally Yates (1960), Daniel Bashiel Warner (1815), Stephen F. Austin (1793), Florence Bascom (1862), and Kenneth Arnold (1915).

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