POLITICIAN

Gus Hall

1910 - 2000

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Gus Hall (born Arvo Kustaa Halberg; October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was an American activist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) from 1959 to 2000. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel manufacturers. During the Second Red Scare, he was indicted under the Smith Act and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gus Hall has received more than 716,791 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gus Hall is the 11,247th most popular politician (up from 12,126th in 2019), the 4,097th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,130th in 2019) and the 274th most popular American Politician.

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  • 52.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gus Hall ranks 11,247 out of 19,576. Before him are Stepan Petrichenko, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Titu Maiorescu, and Jayavarman I. After him are Carlos Luz, Theodosius, Obizzo II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, Frederick I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, David VIII of Georgia, and Huitzilihuitl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Gus Hall ranks 163. Before him are Georgios Zoitakis, Kelly Johnson, Hideo Shinojima, Qian Zhongshu, Pierre Musy, and T-Bone Walker. After him are Helmut Kunz, George C. Homans, Ennio Flaiano, Cyril Cusack, José María Guido, and Aleksandr Tvardovsky. Among people deceased in 2000, Gus Hall ranks 136. Before him are Ferenc Farkas, Poul Hartling, David Tomlinson, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Spyros Markezinis, and Jerzy Giedroyc. After him are Jean Carzou, Antti Hyvärinen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., W. D. Hamilton, Abraham Pais, and Basil Bernstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gus Hall ranks 4,097 out of 20,380. Before him are John Cromwell (1886), William J. Seymour (1870), David Huddleston (1930), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Ginger Lynn (1962), and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824). After him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Lynne Cheney (1941), Lester Germer (1896), David Zucker (1947), and Clark Gregg (1962).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Gus Hall ranks 274. Before him are Robert Smith (1757), Michael Kahn (1935), George M. Dallas (1792), John Nance Garner (1868), Chuck Hagel (1946), and Maurice Hilleman (1919). After him are Lynne Cheney (1941), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), Frank Carlucci (1930), Horace Greeley (1811), George Andrew Reisner (1867), and Kellyanne Conway (1967).

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