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Jack Kemp

1935 - 2009

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Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and professional football player. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1996 election, as the running mate of Bob Dole; they lost to incumbent president Bill Clinton and vice president Al Gore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kemp has received more than 6,685,006 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Kemp is the 3,394th most popular politician (up from 6,021st in 2019), the 1,068th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,053rd in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jack Kemp ranks 3,394 out of 19,576. Before him are Ghazi of Iraq, Marduk-apla-iddina II, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Patricio Aylwin, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, and Julius Schreck. After him are Devlet I Giray, Alexander Balas, John Corvinus, Fernando de la Rúa, Julia Soaemias, and Dred Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Jack Kemp ranks 47. Before him are Jerry Lee Lewis, Giya Kancheli, Jim Peebles, Artur Rasizade, Mirella Freni, and Ei-ichi Negishi. After him are Harvey J. Alter, Harrison Schmitt, Pepe, David Harvey, Zhelyu Zhelev, and John Saxon. Among people deceased in 2009, Jack Kemp ranks 29. Before him are Vivian Maier, Vitaly Ginzburg, Ralf Dahrendorf, Bobby Robson, Jean Dausset, and Maurice Druon. After him are Robert F. Furchgott, Günther Rall, João Bernardo Vieira, Jennifer Jones, Leszek Kołakowski, and Juan Almeida Bosque.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Kemp ranks 1,068 out of 20,380. Before him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), Peggy Guggenheim (1898), L. Frank Baum (1856), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), and Philip Zimbardo (1933). After him are Virginia Satir (1916), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Joel Schumacher (1939), Dred Scott (1795), Hilary Putnam (1926), and Michelle Phillips (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jack Kemp ranks 87. Before him are Lewis Strauss (1896), Jill Biden (1951), Barbara Bush (1925), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Éamon de Valera (1882), and Frank B. Kellogg (1856). After him are Dred Scott (1795), Janet Yellen (1946), Mike Pence (1959), Laura Bush (1946), Meir Kahane (1932), and Andrew Dickson White (1832).

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