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Eugene McCarthy

1916 - 2005

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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. McCarthy sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1968 election, challenging incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform. McCarthy unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene McCarthy has received more than 1,938,580 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Eugene McCarthy is the 13,504th most popular politician (down from 12,418th in 2019), the 6,457th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,322nd in 2019) and the 401st most popular American Politician.

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  • 29

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  • 4.47

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eugene McCarthy ranks 13,504 out of 15,577. Before him are Nur-ili, Norman Mineta, Ramón Barros Luco, Stefan Konstantin, Ture Nerman, and Bagrat Shinkuba. After him are Leonid Sobolev, Teodor Teodorov, Stefanos Skouloudis, Jüri Jaakson, Sergey Ling, and Miro Cerar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Eugene McCarthy ranks 204. Before him are Arnoldo Foà, Nelly Landry, Neagu Djuvara, Bruno Chizzo, Roy Ward Baker, and Nadya Nozharova. After him are Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, Guglielmo Gabetto, Erich Mende, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Bernard Binlin Dadié, and Charles F. Hockett. Among people deceased in 2005, Eugene McCarthy ranks 217. Before him are Eugenia Charles, Jack Colvin, Fabrizio Meoni, Joe Ranft, Johnny Haynes, and Jean Cayrol. After him are Julián Marías, Brock Peters, Karen Lancaume, Pierre Daninos, Vladimir Toporov, and György Sándor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene McCarthy ranks 6,457 out of 18,182. Before him are Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Todd Haynes (1961), David Smith (1906), Pia Zadora (1953), Oliver Hazard Perry (1785), and Henry Halleck (1815). After him are Joan Mitchell (1925), Teddy Mayer (1935), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), Harry Shearer (1943), Frank Pierson (1925), and Arthur Golden (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Eugene McCarthy ranks 401. Before him are Rahm Emanuel (1959), George Moscone (1929), Richard Helms (1913), Stephen Allen Benson (1816), Geraldine Ferraro (1935), and Norman Mineta (1931). After him are José Graziano da Silva (1949), William M. Tweed (1823), John M. Clayton (1796), Pete Ricketts (1964), Sam Webb (1945), and Lucretia Garfield (1832).

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