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James R. Schlesinger

1929 - 2014

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James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to becoming Secretary of Defense, he served as Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1971 to 1973, and as CIA Director for a few months in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James R. Schlesinger has received more than 537,285 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). James R. Schlesinger is the 10,061st most popular politician (up from 11,521st in 2019), the 3,508th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,624th in 2019) and the 221st most popular American Politician.

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  • 540k

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  • 53.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James R. Schlesinger ranks 10,061 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Constantine II of Georgia, Amanirenas, Farahnaz Pahlavi, Guillermo Rodríguez, and Constantine I, Prince of Armenia. After him are Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Ragenfrid, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Joseph Boakai, Eberhard III, Count of Württemberg, and Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, James R. Schlesinger ranks 195. Before him are James McDivitt, Hind Rostom, Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Benny Golson, Hong Song-nam, and Nadja Tiller. After him are Petr Shelokhonov, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Selim Hoss, Mariama Bâ, Alexis Weissenberg, and Roger Bannister. Among people deceased in 2014, James R. Schlesinger ranks 146. Before him are Henning Carlsen, Jean-Jacques Marcel, Julian Rotter, Leslie Manigat, Frans Brüggen, and Reuven Feuerstein. After him are U. R. Ananthamurthy, Tadeusz Różewicz, Kumba Ialá, Manuel Uribe, James Rebhorn, and Vasiľ Biľak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James R. Schlesinger ranks 3,508 out of 20,380. Before him are Harold Robbins (1916), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Stephen Baldwin (1966), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Carl Bernstein (1944), and Harrison Dillard (1923). After him are Amelia Bloomer (1818), Vesto Slipher (1875), Lee Morgan (1938), Al Green (1946), Arthur Janov (1924), and Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, James R. Schlesinger ranks 221. Before him are Caspar Weinberger (1917), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Bill Nelson (1942), Daniel D. Tompkins (1774), and Besse Cooper (1896). After him are Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882), Steve Bannon (1953), James Forrestal (1892), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Robert Lansing (1864), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874).

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