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James G. Blaine

1830 - 1893

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James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the United States House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State, first in 1881 under President James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, and then from 1889 to 1892 under President Benjamin Harrison. He is one of only two U.S. Secretaries of State to hold the position under three separate presidents, the other being Daniel Webster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James G. Blaine has received more than 1,071,780 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). James G. Blaine is the 14,292nd most popular politician (down from 14,017th in 2019), the 6,559th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,206th in 2019) and the 421st most popular American Politician.

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  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James G. Blaine ranks 14,292 out of 19,576. Before him are Enrique Peralta Azurdia, Dmitry Polyansky, Giovanni Battaglin, Ylli Bufi, David Dinkins, and Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani. After him are Emiliano Figueroa, Shirley Chisholm, Arechis I of Benevento, Apama II, Ayub Shah Durrani, and Anatoliy Serdyukov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, James G. Blaine ranks 58. Before him are Gustav Lange, Henry Peach Robinson, Juan Manuel Blanes, Karl Klindworth, Clements Markham, and Clémence Royer. After him are Charles Wyville Thomson, Peter Arnold Heise, Karolina Světlá, Jaroslav Čermák, Viktor Madarász, and Daniel Oliver. Among people deceased in 1893, James G. Blaine ranks 73. Before him are Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, John William Casilear, John Abbott, Karl Bodmer, John O. Westwood, and Charles of Mount Argus. After him are Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Louis Ruchonnet, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Benjamin Butler, and Ion Emanuel Florescu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James G. Blaine ranks 6,559 out of 20,380. Before him are Samuel P. Bush (1863), Cliff Martinez (1954), Eva LaRue (1966), James LoMenzo (1959), Polly Bergen (1930), and David Dinkins (1927). After him are Andy Samberg (1978), Chandra Wilson (1969), Shirley Chisholm (1924), George Gervin (1952), Candida Royalle (1950), and Julie Bowen (1970).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, James G. Blaine ranks 421. Before him are Virginia Hall (1906), John Armstrong Jr. (1758), Timothy Pickering (1745), Abigail Fillmore (1798), Pete Ricketts (1964), and David Dinkins (1927). After him are Shirley Chisholm (1924), Mario Cuomo (1932), Janet Reno (1938), Galo Plaza (1906), Edward Everett (1794), and Ramsey Clark (1927).

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