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Jānis Čakste

1859 - 1927

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Jānis Kristaps Čakste (14 September 1859 – 14 March 1927) was a Latvian politician and lawyer who served as the first head of an independent Latvian state as the Chairman of the People's Council (1918–1920), the Speaker of the Constitutional Assembly (1920–1922), and as the first President of Latvia (1922–1927). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jānis Čakste has received more than 86,254 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jānis Čakste is the 6,470th most popular politician (down from 6,261st in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Latvian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jānis Čakste ranks 6,470 out of 19,576. Before him are Mohammed ben Abdallah, Göran Persson, Adela of France, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Yuri II of Vladimir, and Ibrahim Lodi. After him are Mika Špiljak, Hanns Albin Rauter, Samuel Noah Kramer, Ante Starčević, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus, and Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Jānis Čakste ranks 40. Before him are Diana Abgar, Natalie of Serbia, Alexandru Averescu, Peter Altenberg, Takeda Sōkaku, and Adolf Hurwitz. After him are Ravachol, Thibaw Min, Feng Guozhang, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Léon Duguit, and Georg Alexander Pick. Among people deceased in 1927, Jānis Čakste ranks 38. Before him are Vilhelm Thomsen, Sisowath of Cambodia, James Oliver Curwood, Shote Galica, Sergey Sazonov, and Boris Kustodiev. After him are Carl David Tolmé Runge, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Jovan Cvijić, Hugo Schuchardt, Victorine Meurent, and Stanisław Przybyszewski.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Čakste ranks 29 out of 323. Before him are Wolfgang Lüth (1913), Rainis (1865), Raimonds Pauls (1936), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), and Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692). After him are Pēteris Vasks (1946), Guntis Ulmanis (1939), Herberts Cukurs (1900), Valdis Zatlers (1955), Wilhelm Kettler (1574), and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751).

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Among POLITICIANS In Latvia

Among politicians born in Latvia, Jānis Čakste ranks 12. Before him are Ernst Johann von Biron (1690), Andris Bērziņš (1944), Egils Levits (1955), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), and Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692). After him are Guntis Ulmanis (1939), Valdis Zatlers (1955), Wilhelm Kettler (1574), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), and Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889).

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