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POLITICIAN

Jim Garrison

1921 - 1992

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James Carothers Garrison (born Earling Carothers Garrison; November 20, 1921 – October 21, 1992) was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973 and later a state appellate court judge. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the prosecution of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw to that effect in 1969, which ended in Shaw's acquittal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Garrison has received more than 2,088,602 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jim Garrison is the 8,624th most popular politician (down from 5,212th in 2019), the 3,057th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,808th in 2019) and the 190th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jim Garrison ranks 8,624 out of 15,577. Before him are Henry Percy, Bayezid Osman, Đỗ Mười, Farabundo Martí, Samir Geagea, and Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach. After him are Étienne Maurice Gérard, Izyaslav of Polotsk, Constantine III of Scotland, Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine, James S. Sherman, and Stefan Stambolov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jim Garrison ranks 145. Before him are Meir Amit, Lionel Terray, Darío Moreno, Angelica Rozeanu, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, and P. V. Narasimha Rao. After him are Anne Golon, Malcolm Arnold, Raymond Williams, Vasco Gonçalves, Jackie Stallone, and Carmen Laforet. Among people deceased in 1992, Jim Garrison ranks 96. Before him are Marsha P. Johnson, Jeff Porcaro, Audre Lorde, Anthony Dawson, Petra Kelly, and Tevfik Esenç. After him are Joe Shuster, John G. Kemeny, Néstor Almendros, Paul Henreid, Marisa Mell, and Gaston Reiff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Garrison ranks 3,057 out of 18,182. Before him are Paul Volcker (1927), Archie Moore (1916), Matthew Modine (1959), Al Di Meola (1954), Dinah Washington (1924), and Lee Morgan (1938). After him are Ma Rainey (1886), Vanessa Williams (1963), James S. Sherman (1855), John Hughes (1950), Marie Smith Jones (1918), and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jim Garrison ranks 190. Before him are Edith Roosevelt (1861), James F. Byrnes (1882), Patrick Henry (1736), Thomas A. Hendricks (1819), Elihu Root (1845), and Dean Rusk (1909). After him are James S. Sherman (1855), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Charles Curtis (1860), Robert Gates (1943), and Kamehameha V (1830).

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