PHYSICIAN

Joel Roberts Poinsett

1779 - 1851

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Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779 – December 12, 1851) was an American physician, botanist, politician, and diplomat. He was the first U.S. agent in South America, a member of the South Carolina Legislature in the South Carolina State Capitol, at the state capital town of Columbia, and later a United States Representative (congressman) in the U.S. House of Representatives (the lower chamber of the Congress of the United States), serving 1821-1825. He was appointed by 6th President, John Quincy Adams as the first United States Minister to Mexico (ambassador), He replaced U.S. Army General James Wilkinson (1757-1825), who had been in the Royal Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (of Mexico) as an envoy for a decade, 1816-1825. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Roberts Poinsett has received more than 292,158 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joel Roberts Poinsett is the 592nd most popular physician (down from 525th in 2019), the 7,270th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,553rd in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 592 out of 726. Before him are Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, Adelaida Avagyan, Cecilia Grierson, Ellen S. Baker, Arkady Vorobyov, and Matilde Hidalgo. After him are Ludwig Traube, Edith Farkas, Edzard Ernst, John Jeffries, Julieta Lanteri, and Greene Vardiman Black.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 34. Before him are Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Johann Schweigger, Tabitha Babbitt, Washington Allston, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, and Stephen Decatur. After him are Peter Mark Roget, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Zebulon Pike, Benjamin Silliman, and Joseph Story. Among people deceased in 1851, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 46. Before him are Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, Andrés Quintana Roo, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Baji Rao II, Mizuno Tadakuni, and Giovanni Berchet. After him are William Nicol, Dean Mahomed, Sylvester Graham, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Samuel George Morton, and Joanna Baillie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 7,270 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Finney (1911), Kathryn Grayson (1922), Molly Ringwald (1968), Vikki Carr (1941), Maynard James Keenan (1964), and June Gable (1945). After him are Aileen Pringle (1895), Mildred Dunnock (1901), Edith Clarke (1883), Andrew Stanton (1965), George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859), and Mary Beth Peil (1940).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 67. Before him are Ancel Keys (1904), Bernard Nathanson (1926), Russell M. Nelson (1924), Florence R. Sabin (1871), William Beaumont (1785), and Ellen S. Baker (1953). After him are John Jeffries (1745), John Ostrom (1928), Harry Klinefelter (1912), Stuart Kauffman (1939), Walter Reed (1851), and Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901).

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