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George Voinovich

1936 - 2016

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George Victor Voinovich (July 15, 1936 – June 12, 2016) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Ohio from 1999 to 2011. He previously served as the 65th governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998 and as the 54th mayor of Cleveland from 1980 to 1989, the last Republican to serve in that office. Voinovich spent more than 46 years in public service—first as assistant attorney general of Ohio in 1963 and finally as the senior U.S. senator representing Ohio. He is the 15th person to have served as both the governor of Ohio and a U.S. senator and one of only two Cleveland mayors to later become governor of Ohio and a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Voinovich has received more than 746,383 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). George Voinovich is the 17,395th most popular politician (down from 15,826th in 2019), the 12,126th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,959th in 2019) and the 818th most popular American Politician.

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  • 750k

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  • 40.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George Voinovich ranks 17,395 out of 19,576. Before him are Radmila Šekerinska, Nina Rocheva, Péter Márki-Zay, William Wirt, Benjamin Stoddert, and Ioannis Palaiokrassas. After him are Malik Meraj Khalid, Alain Claude Bilie By Nze, Roland Koch, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Mike Johnson, and Yevgeny Alexeyevich Fyodorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, George Voinovich ranks 556. Before him are Sylvia Browne, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Jamuna, Rosa María Britton, Jackie Lewis, and Fred Neil. After him are Thelma Hopkins, Bill Hinzman, Pat Roberts, Adrian Smith, Benito Sarti, and Werner von Moltke. Among people deceased in 2016, George Voinovich ranks 546. Before him are Kitty Kallen, Joe Medicine Crow, Ilkka Hanski, Nahed Hattar, P. A. Sangma, and Yūko Mizutani. After him are Noel Neill, Christopher Zeeman, Ron Glass, Marvin Kaplan, Siegbert Horn, and Miriam Defensor Santiago.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Voinovich ranks 12,126 out of 20,380. Before him are Sarah Drew (1980), Benjamin Stoddert (1751), Alan Merrill (1951), Tommy Noonan (1921), Patsy Kelly (1910), and Henry Weed Fowler (1878). After him are Mildred Bailey (1907), Daniel Roebuck (1963), Art Taylor (1929), Sonja Sohn (1964), Conrad Vernon (1968), and Audrey Meadows (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, George Voinovich ranks 818. Before him are Kathleen Sebelius (1948), Juanita M. Kreps (1921), Eddie Bernice Johnson (1935), Tom Daschle (1947), William Wirt (1772), and Benjamin Stoddert (1751). After him are Mike Johnson (1972), Michele Bachmann (1956), Rick Santorum (1958), Wade Hampton III (1818), Cori Bush (1976), and Sherrod Brown (1952).

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