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Hugo Black

1886 - 1971

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Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party and a devoted New Dealer, Black endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections.Before he became a Senator, Black espoused anti-Catholic views and was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. An article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that he temporarily resigned from the Klan in 1925 to bolster his senatorial campaign, before quietly rejoining the Klan in 1926. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Black has received more than 1,574,322 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Hugo Black is the 14,800th most popular politician (down from 13,207th in 2019), the 8,456th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,572nd in 2019) and the 520th most popular American Politician.

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  • 21

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  • 1.78

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  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hugo Black ranks 14,800 out of 15,577. Before him are Grantley Goulding, Roger Kolo, Andrei Kobyakov, Richard Shelby, Eugene Burton Ely, and Alexandru G. Golescu. After him are Jeremiah S. Black, Alberto Zorrilla, Sándor Gombos, Theodore Katsanevas, Christian Estrosi, and Margrete Auken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hugo Black ranks 239. Before him are Ardeshir Irani, Gustavo Jiménez, Arthur Whitten Brown, Árpád Tóth, Arthur Shaw, and Eugene Burton Ely. After him are Arthur Amundsen, Charlotte Mineau, Robert Andersson, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, and Harold Nicolson. Among people deceased in 1971, Hugo Black ranks 184. Before him are Libby Holman, Amado Azar, Usmar Ismail, Koichi Kudo, Jadwiga Smosarska, and Ciro Verratti. After him are Stuart Holmes, Earl Thomson, Chesty Puller, Walter Byron, Georgy Babakin, and Kono Yasui.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugo Black ranks 8,456 out of 18,182. Before him are Ernie Lively (1947), Shelley Lubben (1968), Superstar Billy Graham (1943), Taylor Momsen (1993), Eugene Burton Ely (1886), and Charles Greene (1945). After him are Mariette Hartley (1940), Jeremiah S. Black (1810), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Ezra Miller (1992), Kerr Smith (1972), and Richard Armitage (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Hugo Black ranks 520. Before him are Rodney Mullen (1966), Frances Perkins (1880), R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Abel P. Upshur (1790), Richard Shelby (1934), and Eugene Burton Ely (1886). After him are Jeremiah S. Black (1810), James Comey (1960), Giorgos Kaminis (1954), James M. Cox (1870), Michael Hayden (1945), and Thomas Watson Jr. (1914).

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