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George Bancroft

1800 - 1891

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George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and international levels. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Bancroft has received more than 375,972 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). George Bancroft is the 14,740th most popular politician (down from 13,160th in 2019), the 8,371st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,487th in 2019) and the 512th most popular American Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George Bancroft ranks 14,740 out of 15,577. Before him are Wilhelmina Drucker, Ephraïm Inoni, Lewis Cass, Ni Xialian, Arthur Whitten Brown, and Talorgan I. After him are Klaus Schütz, Besarion Gugushvili, Philip Schuyler, István Tarlós, Kuupik Kleist, and Ali Shah Durrani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, George Bancroft ranks 67. Before him are Charles Antoine Lemaire, Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Kolyu Ficheto, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, and Juan Francisco de Vidal. After him are Ali Shah Durrani, Carl Meissner, Johann Georg Wagler, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Caleb Cushing, and Edward Bouverie Pusey. Among people deceased in 1891, George Bancroft ranks 92. Before him are Calixa Lavallée, Amalie Dietrich, Joseph Roumanille, Antonio Arenas, Alphonso Taft, and Pierre de Decker. After him are Emma Abbott, Charles Bradlaugh, Barbara Bodichon, Joseph Bazalgette, George Hearst, and Ludvig Lorenz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Bancroft ranks 8,371 out of 18,182. Before him are Slim Pickens (1919), Lewis Cass (1782), Helen Slater (1963), Hugo Benioff (1899), Eliphalet Remington (1793), and Robert Keith (1898). After him are John Kundla (1916), Philip Schuyler (1733), Rob Morrow (1962), Mark Hoppus (1972), Assata Shakur (1947), and Boyd Holbrook (1981).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, George Bancroft ranks 512. Before him are Tenskwatawa (1775), John Forsyth (1780), Charles Sumner (1811), Bisher Al-Khasawneh (1969), Dick Durbin (1944), and Lewis Cass (1782). After him are Philip Schuyler (1733), Rodney Mullen (1966), Frances Perkins (1880), R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Abel P. Upshur (1790), and Richard Shelby (1934).

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