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Harriet Lane

1830 - 1903

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Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903) acted as first lady of the United States during the administration of her uncle, lifelong bachelor president James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861. She has been described as the first of the modern first ladies, being a notably charming and diplomatic hostess, whose dress-styles were copied, and who promoted deserving causes. In her will, she left funds for a new school on the grounds of Washington National Cathedral. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Lane has received more than 649,024 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Harriet Lane is the 10,606th most popular politician (up from 11,507th in 2019), the 3,787th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,616th in 2019) and the 249th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harriet Lane ranks 10,606 out of 19,576. Before her are Nikki Haley, Zhang Gaoli, Ernest II, Duke of Swabia, Kaʻahumanu, Aryenis, and Ángel María Villar. After her are Petar Živković, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, François de La Rocque, Élisabeth de Bourbon, and Ziyadat Allah I of Ifriqiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Harriet Lane ranks 42. Before her are Christina Rossetti, Albert Günther, Aga Khan II, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Luigi Cremona, and Kamehameha V. After her are Mehmed Said Pasha, Kálmán Tisza, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Otto Lesser, Karl Christian Bruhns, and Marianne North. Among people deceased in 1903, Harriet Lane ranks 41. Before her are Charles Renouvier, Béni Kállay, Alexander Bain, Luigi Cremona, Malwida von Meysenbug, and Augusta Holmès. After her are Emily Warren Roebling, William Ernest Henley, Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Ozaki Kōyō, and Tang Jingsong.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harriet Lane ranks 3,787 out of 20,380. Before her are Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Milton Glaser (1929), Nikki Haley (1972), Gordon Gould (1920), Kaʻahumanu (1768), and Isiah Thomas (1961). After her are Wanda Jackson (1937), Ty Cobb (1886), John Perkins (1945), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Sarah Paulson (1974), and Bernie Mac (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Harriet Lane ranks 249. Before her are John C. Breckinridge (1821), Lori Lightfoot (1962), Lunalilo (1835), Black Hawk (1767), Nikki Haley (1972), and Kaʻahumanu (1768). After her are Bruce Rauner (1957), Elizabeth Warren (1949), George McGovern (1922), Florence Harding (1860), Jim Gray (1944), and Winnaretta Singer (1865).

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