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Fred Thompson

1942 - 2015

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Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003; Thompson was an unsuccessful candidate in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election. He also chaired the International Security Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of State, was a member of the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a visiting fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.As an actor, usually credited as Fred Dalton Thompson, he appeared in a number of movies and television shows including Matlock, The Hunt for Red October, Die Hard 2, In the Line of Fire, Days of Thunder, and Cape Fear, as well as in commercials. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Thompson has received more than 4,622,339 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Fred Thompson is the 11,912th most popular politician (down from 11,135th in 2019), the 4,926th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,854th in 2019) and the 311th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fred Thompson ranks 11,912 out of 15,577Before him are Ekrem İmamoğlu, Maxtla, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, Arshak III, Terentius Maximus, and Ludeca of Mercia. After him are Robert Zoellick, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, Willem Schermerhorn, Władysław Grabski, Mokgweetsi Masisi, and Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Fred Thompson ranks 337Before him are Ion Drîmbă, Marty Balin, Anneke Grönloh, Doğu Perinçek, Jerry Sloan, and Gillian Rubinstein. After him are Hannelore Elsner, Al Jardine, Valentin Lebedev, Eduard Markarov, Gustavo Peña, and Jean Shrimpton. Among people deceased in 2015, Fred Thompson ranks 211Before him are Erik De Vlaeminck, Lynn Anderson, Theodore Bikel, Dragan Holcer, Tadeusz Konwicki, and Jules Bianchi. After him are Qiao Shi, Phil Woods, Daevid Allen, Alex Rocco, Giacomo Biffi, and Geoff Duke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Thompson ranks 4,926 out of 18,182Before him are Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Carol Kane (1952), Michael Tomasello (1950), John Agar (1921), and Amber Lynn (1964). After him are Hugh McDonald (1950), Robert Zoellick (1953), Cat Power (1972), Vincent Richards (1903), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Dennis Lehane (1965).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Fred Thompson ranks 311Before him are Dianne Feinstein (1933), Patrick Leahy (1940), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), Vince Lombardi (1913), Tom Hayden (1939), and Lucien Carr (1925). After him are Robert Zoellick (1953), Lester Bird (1938), Alger Hiss (1904), Chief Joseph (1840), Sandra Day O'Connor (1930), and William J. Donovan (1883).