POLITICIAN

Herbert Morrison

1888 - 1965

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British politician who held a variety of senior positions in the Cabinet as a member of the Labour Party. During the inter-war period, he was Minister of Transport during the Second MacDonald ministry, then after losing his parliamentary seat in the 1931 general election, he became Leader of the London County Council in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Morrison has received more than 596,564 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Herbert Morrison is the 16,528th most popular politician (down from 15,431st in 2019), the 4,952nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,788th in 2019) and the 578th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Herbert Morrison ranks 16,528 out of 19,576. Before him are Roy Welensky, Pierre Amine Gemayel, Charles Lee, Reiner Haseloff, Jan-Erik Enestam, and Anna Fotyga. After him are Halvdan Koht, Navin Ramgoolam, James Cleverly, Richard A. Falk, Aurelio Mosquera, and Tsetska Tsacheva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Herbert Morrison ranks 250. Before him are Paul Niggli, Joseph Pletincx, William Hood Simpson, Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, Karl Gustafsson, and Victor Schertzinger. After him are Alfred Braun, George B. Seitz, Jan Palouš, Josef Ternström, Gabriel Thorstensen, and Lowell Sherman. Among people deceased in 1965, Herbert Morrison ranks 214. Before him are Edward Archibald, Felix Frankfurter, Aimée Antoinette Camus, Herb Drury, Gheorghe Ciolac, and Robert Sjursen. After him are Halvdan Koht, David Smith, John Miller, Ray Collins, Mary Boland, and William Hogenson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Morrison ranks 4,952 out of 8,785. Before him are Iolo Morganwg (1747), Geraldine Beamish (1883), Ian Burgess (1930), Malcolm Gladwell (1963), Laura Fraser (1976), and John Braine (1922). After him are Ronald Pope (1920), Mackenzie Crook (1971), Frank Bruno (1961), Bob Crompton (1879), Tommy Flowers (1905), and Sheila Lerwill (1928).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Herbert Morrison ranks 578. Before him are John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), Charles Rosher (1885), Mackenzie Bowell (1823), James Oglethorpe (1696), and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536). After him are James Cleverly (1969), George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784), Samuel Plimsoll (1824), Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762), Albert Oldman (1883), and John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792).

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