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Fiorello H. La Guardia

1882 - 1947

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Fiorello Henry La Guardia (; born Fiorello Raffaele Enrico La Guardia, Italian pronunciation: [fjoˈrɛllo raf.faˈɛ.le enˈriːko la ˈɡwardja]; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1946. He was known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive, rotund stature. A socialist member of the Republican Party, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by parties other than his own, especially parties on the left under New York's electoral fusion laws. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fiorello H. La Guardia has received more than 970,351 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Fiorello H. La Guardia is the 10,073rd most popular politician (down from 7,944th in 2019), the 3,514th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,782nd in 2019) and the 222nd most popular American Politician.

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  • 970k

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  • 53.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Fiorello H. La Guardia has had the most page views in the with 36,801 views, followed by Italian (34,250), and Hebrew (8,528). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (467.32%), Latin (113.47%), and Simple English (87.10%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fiorello H. La Guardia ranks 10,074 out of 19,576. Before him are Joseph Boakai, Eberhard III, Count of Württemberg, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Auguste Vaillant, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Francisco León de la Barra, and Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani. After him are Steve Bannon, Pietro Loredan, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, James Forrestal, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Fiorello H. La Guardia ranks 130. Before him are Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Halil Kut, Károly Huszár, Joseph Cardijn, Hugh Dowding, and Maurice Germot. After him are Karl Valentin, Huseyn Javid, Holland Smith, Nicolae Titulescu, José Vasconcelos, and Geraldine Farrar. Among people deceased in 1947, Fiorello H. La Guardia ranks 107. Before him are Anton Schall, Carl Hilpert, Evelyn McHale, Andrei Shkuro, Theodore Romzha, and Franz Joseph Emil Fischer. After him are Georg von Trapp, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Francesc Cambó, Ricarda Huch, Petar Živković, and Annie Londonderry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fiorello H. La Guardia ranks 3,514 out of 20,380. Before him are James R. Schlesinger (1929), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Vesto Slipher (1875), Lee Morgan (1938), Al Green (1946), and Arthur Janov (1924). After him are Steve Bannon (1953), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), James Forrestal (1892), Aaron Paul (1979), and Rufus Wainwright (1973).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Fiorello H. La Guardia ranks 222. Before him are Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Bill Nelson (1942), Daniel D. Tompkins (1774), Besse Cooper (1896), and James R. Schlesinger (1929). After him are Steve Bannon (1953), James Forrestal (1892), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Robert Lansing (1864), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), and Dolley Madison (1768).

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