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Gary Locke

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Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician, attorney, and former diplomat from the State of Washington. Locke served as the 21st governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005, where he was the first Chinese-American governor as well as the first Asian American governor in the continental U.S. During the Obama administration, Locke served as Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011, and as Ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014, the first Chinese American to serve in the role. First elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1982, Locke went on to become King County executive in 1993 before being elected governor in the 1996 election. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Locke has received more than 1,013,032 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gary Locke is the 14,715th most popular politician (down from 13,628th in 2019), the 7,053rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,676th in 2019) and the 458th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gary Locke ranks 14,715 out of 19,576. Before him are Ashur-rabi I, Jacques Barrot, Paul Keating, Joshua Chamberlain, José Manuel Pando, and Alenka Bratušek. After him are Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Carlos Roberto Reina, Els Borst, Tony Benn, Alfonso Portillo, and He Guoqiang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Gary Locke ranks 393. Before him are Rowan Williams, Slava Polunin, Arthur Roche, Ferenc Mészáros, Samantha Fox, and Javier Mariscal. After him are Sudha Murty, Chen Chu, Tina Weymouth, Annegret Richter, Miloslava Rezková, and Yuri Shchekochikhin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Locke ranks 7,053 out of 20,380. Before him are Big E (1986), Rush Limbaugh (1951), Joanna Russ (1937), Dave Navarro (1967), Daphne Zuniga (1962), and Marion Jones (1975). After him are David A. R. White (1970), Kevin McHale (1957), Utada Hikaru (1983), Paul Theroux (1941), Jim Hutton (1934), and Gregory Walcott (1928).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Gary Locke ranks 458. Before him are Tom Hayden (1939), Lee Friedlander (1934), Norman Mineta (1931), Whitney Smith (1940), Ron DeSantis (1978), and Joshua Chamberlain (1828). After him are Lewis Cass (1782), Gavin Newsom (1967), William M. Tweed (1823), Thaddeus Stevens (1792), Larry O'Brien (1917), and Lucien Carr (1925).

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