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George Hearst

1820 - 1891

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George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 1879, he listed it on the New York Stock Exchange and went on to other pursuits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Hearst has received more than 2,469,326 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. George Hearst is the 16,365th most popular politician (down from 15,077th in 2019), the 9,667th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,110th in 2019) and the 623rd most popular American Politician.

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  • 2.5M

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  • 44.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George Hearst ranks 16,365 out of 19,576. Before him are Zoran Živković, Milton Margai, Christopher Hornsrud, Christian Poncelet, Nisreen Elsaim, and John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun. After him are Vano Merabishvili, Andriy Biletsky, Kathy Hochul, Modibo Sidibé, Nina Agadzhanova, and Theo de Meester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, George Hearst ranks 78. Before him are Maria Katharina Kasper, Victor Puiseux, John F. Reynolds, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Anthony W. Gardiner, and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. After him are George Grove, Thomas Baines, Elisha Kent Kane, Worthington Whittredge, and Earl Van Dorn. Among people deceased in 1891, George Hearst ranks 107. Before him are Alphonso Taft, José María Urvina, George Bancroft, Joseph Bazalgette, Barbara Bodichon, and Charles Bradlaugh. After him are David Dixon Porter, Sarah Winnemucca, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, and William Windom.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Hearst ranks 9,667 out of 20,380. Before him are George Herriman (1880), Haskell Wexler (1922), Wilmer Valderrama (1980), Michael Milken (1946), Art Babbitt (1907), and George Finnegan (1881). After him are Joe Flanigan (1967), Ed King (1949), Jimmy Van Heusen (1913), Albert Ammons (1907), Patsy Ruth Miller (1904), and Jimmie Vaughan (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, George Hearst ranks 623. Before him are Henry McMaster (1947), Karl Rove (1950), Lorenzo Snow (1814), Edward Seaga (1930), Gordon B. Hinckley (1910), and Jon Ossoff (1987). After him are Kathy Hochul (1958), Stanley Wagner (1908), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927), John Nelson (1791), Lester Bird (1938), and Pete Wilson (1933).

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