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Hamilton Fish

1808 - 1893

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Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808 – September 7, 1893) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 16th governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.S. secretary of state from 1869 to 1877. Fish was the most trusted advisor to President Ulysses S. Grant and recognized as the pillar of Grant's presidency. He is considered one of the nation's most effective U.S. secretaries of state by scholars, known for his judiciousness and efforts towards reform and diplomatic moderation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hamilton Fish has received more than 523,203 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Hamilton Fish is the 15,861st most popular politician (down from 14,449th in 2019), the 8,738th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,926th in 2019) and the 560th most popular American Politician.

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  • 52.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hamilton Fish ranks 15,861 out of 19,576. Before him are John Gorton, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Ted Kaufman, Tom Vilsack, Volen Siderov, and Jennifer Granholm. After him are Jacques Sylla, Amina Bouayach, John Adair, John F. Kelly, Nicolas Hulot, and Sheikh Abdullah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Hamilton Fish ranks 65. Before him are Philipp Christoph Zeller, José Rufino Echenique, Antonio Arenas, José María Urvina, José María Linares, and Agustín Morales. After him are Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Wendela Hebbe, Hugh Falconer, Teréz Karacs, John Hutton Balfour, and Juan Crisóstomo Torrico. Among people deceased in 1893, Hamilton Fish ranks 81. Before him are Louis Ruchonnet, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Benjamin Butler, Ion Emanuel Florescu, and Edmund Kirby Smith. After him are John Rae, Richard Spruce, John Addington Symonds, William Fox, Fanny Kemble, and John Ballance.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hamilton Fish ranks 8,738 out of 20,380. Before him are Neil Burger (1963), Yakima Canutt (1895), Anne Gwynne (1918), Nunnally Johnson (1897), John Aylward (1946), and James Parrott (1897). After him are John Adair (1757), Vincent Youmans (1898), Kent Beck (1961), Lloyd Fredendall (1883), Morten Lauridsen (1943), and Steve Anderson (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Hamilton Fish ranks 560. Before him are Donald Regan (1918), Karen Bass (1953), Penny Pritzker (1959), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902), Ted Kaufman (1939), and Tom Vilsack (1950). After him are John Adair (1757), John F. Kelly (1950), Mike Dunleavy (1961), H. R. Haldeman (1926), John Ashcroft (1942), and Angus King (1944).

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