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Joel Barlow

1754 - 1812

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Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 – December 26, 1812) was an American poet, diplomat, and politician. In politics, he supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian republican. He worked as an agent for American speculator William Duer to set up the Scioto Company in Paris in 1788, and to sell worthless deeds to land in the Northwest Territory which it did not own. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Barlow has received more than 155,806 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joel Barlow is the 5,784th most popular writer (down from 5,425th in 2019), the 10,818th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,522nd in 2019) and the 813th most popular American Writer.

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  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joel Barlow ranks 5,784 out of 5,755. Before him are James Lipton, James Branch Cabell, Lawrence Wright, Joe Paterno, Tierno Monénembo, and Mo Hayder. After him are Damon Lindelof, Christopher Fry, Polly Samson, Vikram Seth, Robert Rodat, and Laurell K. Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Joel Barlow ranks 51. Before him are Juan Meléndez Valdés, Hipólito Ruiz López, George Crabbe, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, and Archibald Menzies. After him is Abraham Baldwin. Among people deceased in 1812, Joel Barlow ranks 27. Before him are Charles Cameron, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Joseph Woelfl, Matvey Kazakov, John Colter, and Isaac Brock. After him is Gunning Bedford Jr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Barlow ranks 10,818 out of 18,182. Before him are Ryan Guzman (1987), Danielle Harris (1977), Jimmy Bryan (1926), Roy Brown (1925), Devon (1977), and Buzz Osborne (1964). After him are Judy Sheindlin (1942), Damon Lindelof (1973), Jim Ryun (1947), Hap Sharp (1928), John DiMaggio (1968), and Kitty Wells (1919).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joel Barlow ranks 813. Before him are Daniel Handler (1970), Sue Monk Kidd (1948), James Lipton (1926), James Branch Cabell (1879), Lawrence Wright (1947), and Joe Paterno (1926). After him are Damon Lindelof (1973), Robert Rodat (1953), Laurell K. Hamilton (1963), Tom Wilson (1931), Helen Gurley Brown (1922), and Cheryl Strayed (1968).

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