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Jim Bunning

1931 - 2017

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James Paul David Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher and politician from Kentucky who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1999 and a member of the United States Senate from 1999 to 2011. He is the sole Major League Baseball athlete to have been elected to both the United States Senate and the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Bunning pitched from 1955 to 1971 for the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Bunning has received more than 1,002,832 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Bunning is the 17,655th most popular politician (down from 16,300th in 2019), the 12,907th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,310th in 2019) and the 894th most popular American Politician.

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  • 47.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jim Bunning ranks 17,655 out of 19,576. Before him are Raffaele Lombardo, Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Kari Traa, and P. Chidambaram. After him are Dick Quax, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Philip May, John Eaton, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, and Padmaja Naidu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Jim Bunning ranks 591. Before him are James Abourezk, Brook Benton, Cliff Hagan, Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Bruce Halford, and Bobby Collins. After him are David Axelrod, Marc Bouissou, Zia Mohyeddin, Bob Kenney, Bina Rai, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Among people deceased in 2017, Jim Bunning ranks 604. Before him are Simon Dickie, Bruce Forsyth, Lorne Loomer, Margit Schumann, Peggy Cummins, and Uli Vos. After him are George Avakian, Nat Hentoff, Al Lawrence, Janusz Wójcik, Warrel Dane, and David Axelrod.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Bunning ranks 12,907 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Ariely (1967), Kathleen Hanna (1968), Kay Bailey Hutchison (1943), JoAnna Garcia (1979), Laird Cregar (1913), and Marion Mahony Griffin (1871). After him are Tarana Burke (1973), Alonzo Babers (1961), Erica Gimpel (1964), Hugh Howey (1975), Joseph Wambaugh (1937), and Joan Benoit (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jim Bunning ranks 894. Before him are Cynthia Lummis (1954), Roger Wicker (1951), Otis Bowen (1918), William Ellery (1727), Eleanor Holmes Norton (1937), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (1943). After him are John Eaton (1790), Gunning Bedford Jr. (1747), Olympia Snowe (1947), Arthur Goldberg (1908), Ernest Gruening (1887), and Payne Stewart (1957).

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