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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 992,581 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). James G. Blaine is the 14,066th most popular politician (down from 12,628th in 2019), the 7,221st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,634th in 2019) and the 438th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James G. Blaine ranks 14,066 out of 15,577Before him are Alice Weidel, Chung Won-shik, He Guoqiang, Dmytro Yarosh, Johnny Briceño, and Yossi Sarid. After him are Abdulla Yameen, Ion Ciubuc, Isak Saba, Karim Khalili, Hugo Egmont Hørring, and Josef Ludwig von Armansperg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, James G. Blaine ranks 62Before him are Peter Arnold Heise, Karolina Světlá, Henry Bird, Viktor Madarász, Daniel Oliver, and John Moresby. After him are Oliver Otis Howard, Abraham Jacobi, Henry Flagler, Lina Morgenstern, Emily Davies, and Frederic Moore. Among people deceased in 1893, James G. Blaine ranks 69Before him are Louis Ruchonnet, Duleep Singh, John O. Westwood, Constantin von Wurzbach, Benjamin Butler, and Aleksey Pleshcheyev. After him are Edwin Booth, Richard Spruce, Hamilton Fish, Ion Emanuel Florescu, John Rae, and Aleksandra Potanina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James G. Blaine ranks 7,221 out of 18,182Before him are MC Ren (1969), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Bert Lahr (1895), Walt Bellamy (1939), Jimmy Giuffre (1921), and Charles Walters (1911). After him are Maggie Wheeler (1961), Corey Feldman (1971), Richard Tyson (1956), Alan Crosland (1894), Jackie DeShannon (1941), and Helen Levitt (1913).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, James G. Blaine ranks 438Before him are Edward Douglass White (1845), Benjamin Butler (1818), Robert A. Taft (1889), Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876), James Brady (1940), and George Tenet (1953). After him are Edward Everett (1794), Lucy Webb Hayes (1831), Bill Bradley (1943), Robert Bacon (1860), Greg Louganis (1960), and Oliver Otis Howard (1830).