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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 595,509 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Harriet Lane is the 11,541st most popular politician (up from 11,760th in 2019), the 4,628th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,506th in 2019) and the 288th most popular American Politician.

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  • 30

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  • 3.16

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  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harriet Lane ranks 11,541 out of 15,577Before her are Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Hermann Muhs, Nicolò Contarini, Ayub Khan, Jaime Lusinchi, and Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve. After her are Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Han Myeong-sook, Silvestro Valier, Tang Jiaxuan, King Xiang of Zhou, and Denis Pushilin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Harriet Lane ranks 49Before her are Ivan Larionov, Henry Peach Robinson, Karl Christian Bruhns, Mehmed Said Pasha, Otto Lesser, and Marianne North. After her are Clémence Royer, Kálmán Tisza, Gustav Lange, Juan Manuel Blanes, Clements Markham, and Charles Wyville Thomson. Among people deceased in 1903, Harriet Lane ranks 49Before her are Augusta Holmès, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Kusumoto Ine, Ozaki Kōyō, Karl Gegenbaur, and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay. After her are Tang Jingsong, Lina Sandell, Emily Warren Roebling, Konstantinos Paspatis, Henri Alexis Brialmont, and George Gissing.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harriet Lane ranks 4,628 out of 18,182Before her are Gregory Hines (1946), Robert Keohane (1941), Gary Peacock (1935), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), and Elizabeth Mitchell (1970). After her are Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879), Eric Johnson (1954), Clarence Zener (1905), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), Emily Deschanel (1976), and Janet Asimov (1926).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Harriet Lane ranks 288Before her are Adlai Stevenson I (1835), Henry Paulson (1946), Harry Reid (1939), Oliver North (1943), Michael Kahn (1935), and Gary Hart (1936). After her are Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879), James R. Schlesinger (1929), Pete Rose (1941), Black Kettle (1803), Nick Bollettieri (1931), and Bobby Jones (1902).