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Jane Pierce

1806 - 1863

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Jane Means Pierce (née Appleton; March 12, 1806 – December 2, 1863) was the wife of Franklin Pierce and the first lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857. She married Franklin Pierce, then a congressman, in 1834 despite her family's misgivings. She refused to live in Washington, D.C., and in 1842, she convinced her husband to retire from politics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Pierce has received more than 483,790 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jane Pierce is the 14,905th most popular politician (down from 13,598th in 2019), the 7,316th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,626th in 2019) and the 472nd most popular American Politician.

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  • 480k

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  • 47.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jane Pierce ranks 14,905 out of 19,576. Before her are Sakai Toshihiko, Vlastimil Tusar, Queen Gwendolen, William J. Casey, Marduk-kabit-ahheshu, and Fausto Bertinotti. After her are Ana Botella, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Feliciano Viera, Castinus, Adam Rapacki, and Samiha Khalil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Jane Pierce ranks 54. Before her are Matthew Fontaine Maury, George Newbold Lawrence, Émile Souvestre, Martín Carrera, Gennaios Kolokotronis, and Heinrich Laube. After her are Aristeidis Moraitinis, Pascual Madoz, Blanka Teleki, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Henry Kellett, and William Fothergill Cooke. Among people deceased in 1863, Jane Pierce ranks 48. Before her are Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Josephine Kablick, Andrei Mureșanu, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, John F. Reynolds, and Little Crow. After her are Charles Robert Cockerell, William John Burchell, Manuel Basilio Bustamante, Nikolai Turczaninow, Juan Francisco de Vidal, and Juan Francisco Giró.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Pierce ranks 7,316 out of 20,380. Before her are Patrick St. Esprit (1954), Patrick Rothfuss (1973), Barbara Morgan (1951), Beverly Sills (1929), Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926), and Jeffrey Combs (1954). After her are John Hawkes (1959), Anna Sui (1952), Will Wright (1960), Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876), Joseph Williams (1960), and Vanessa Blue (1974).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jane Pierce ranks 472. Before her are Richard H. Truly (1937), Harry Reid (1939), Bob Menendez (1954), Lucy Webb Hayes (1831), Oliver Ellsworth (1745), and William J. Casey (1913). After her are Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876), James Spriggs Payne (1819), Ralph Metcalfe (1910), Robert A. Taft (1889), Joe Manchin (1947), and Charles Lang (1902).

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