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Eric Shinseki

1942 - Today

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Eric Ken Shinseki (; Japanese: 新関 健, romanized: Shinseki Ken, born November 28, 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 962,625 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eric Shinseki is the 11,391st most popular politician (up from 11,796th in 2019), the 4,529th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,543rd in 2019) and the 281st most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eric Shinseki ranks 11,391 out of 15,577Before him are Julius Saturninus, Nebiriau II, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Abisare, Joseph François Dupleix, and Ramesuan. After him are Lorenzo Celsi, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, Karim Massimov, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Publius Valerius Laevinus, and Çandarlızade Ali Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Eric Shinseki ranks 313Before him are Boubacar Traoré, Natalia Gutman, Jackie Oliver, Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Dick Parry, and Chantal Goya. After him are Claude Miller, Margarita Terekhova, Björn Nordqvist, Gregorio Rosa Chávez, Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, and Vladimir Kovalyonok.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Shinseki ranks 4,529 out of 18,182Before him are John Carroll Lynch (1963), Harry Hillman (1881), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), Will Patton (1954), and George Catlin (1796). After him are Dana White (1969), Linda McMahon (1948), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), William Graham Sumner (1840), Isadore Singer (1924), and Rebecca Romijn (1972).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Eric Shinseki ranks 281Before him are Elizabeth Monroe (1768), Sanford B. Dole (1844), Ambrose Burnside (1824), Jack Sharkey (1902), Robert Byrd (1917), and Bruce Rauner (1957). After him are Adlai Stevenson I (1835), Henry Paulson (1946), Harry Reid (1939), Oliver North (1943), Michael Kahn (1935), and Gary Hart (1936).