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Joe Clark

1939 - Today

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Charles Joseph Clark (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980. Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976. He won a minority government in the 1979 election, defeating the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau and ending sixteen years of continuous Liberal rule. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Clark has received more than 2,211,629 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Clark is the 13,241st most popular politician (down from 12,734th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Canada (up from 292nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Canadian Politician.

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  • 2.2M

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  • 56.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joe Clark ranks 13,241 out of 19,576. Before him are Calixto García, Carl Swartz, Ishi, Licinius Valerianus, Vima Takto, and Martín Vizcarra. After him are Martin Špegelj, Isaías Medina Angarita, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Vinicio Cerezo, Eustace Grenier, and Eucratides II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Joe Clark ranks 327. Before him are Dixie Carter, Joel-Peter Witkin, Yaakov Neeman, Luigi Simoni, John Peel, and Chris Dickerson. After him are Billy Cox, Joseph Raz, Abdullah Ensour, Sushil Koirala, Michael Gothard, and Robert Darnton.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Joe Clark ranks 285 out of 1,622. Before him are Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Deborah Kara Unger (1966), David Johnston (1941), Patricia Churchland (1943), Bobby Orr (1948), and André Bessette (1845). After him are Yannick Bisson (1969), Édouard Gagnon (1918), Terry Sawchuk (1929), Bill Brack (1935), John Diefenbaker (1895), and Natasha Henstridge (1974).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, Joe Clark ranks 20. Before him are René Lévesque (1922), Jean Béliveau (1931), John T. Dunlap (1957), Kim Campbell (1947), Louis St. Laurent (1882), and David Johnston (1941). After him are Terry Sawchuk (1929), John Diefenbaker (1895), Robert Borden (1854), Michael Ignatieff (1947), John Abbott (1821), and Arthur Meighen (1874).

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