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Frances Willard

1839 - 1898

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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth (on Prohibition) and Nineteenth (on women's suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Willard has received more than 304,376 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Frances Willard is the 618th most popular social activist (down from 516th in 2019), the 10,942nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,989th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Frances Willard ranks 618 out of 840. Before her are James Larkin, Rachel Corrie, Albertina Sisulu, Robert Emmet, Betty Ong, and Jan Egeland. After her are Irene Fernandez, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Manal al-Sharif, and Josefa Francisco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Frances Willard ranks 90. Before her are Almon Brown Strowger, William T. Anderson, Casimiro de Abreu, Ivan Kuratov, John Aitken, and Julius von Hann. After her are Redvers Buller, John Ballance, Robert Smalls, George Clement Perkins, and Oliver Hazard Payne. Among people deceased in 1898, Frances Willard ranks 84. Before her are Thomas F. Bayard, Luiza Pesjak, Georg Bühler, Samuel Plimsoll, George Grey, and Benjamin Mountfort. After her is Blanche Bruce.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances Willard ranks 10,942 out of 20,380. Before her are Micky Ward (1965), Stone Gossard (1966), Kenneth Rogoff (1953), Robert P. Patterson (1891), Cameron Monaghan (1993), and Jordan Mechner (1964). After her are Samuel King Allison (1900), George Henry Thomas (1816), Marguerite MacIntyre (1965), Steven R. McQueen (1988), Faith Evans (1973), and Ted Sorensen (1928).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Frances Willard ranks 99. Before her are Martin Luther King III (1957), Lillian Wald (1867), Aaron Swartz (1986), Mario Savio (1942), Rachel Corrie (1979), and Betty Ong (1956). After her are Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Yolanda King (1955), Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911), Lucy Burns (1879), Angelina Grimké (1805), and Phoebe Hearst (1842).

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