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John A. Costello

1891 - 1976

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John Aloysius Costello (20 June 1891 – 5 January 1976) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1948 to 1951 and from 1954 to 1957, Leader of the Opposition from 1951 to 1954 and from 1957 to 1959, and Attorney General of Ireland from 1926 to 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John A. Costello has received more than 203,623 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John A. Costello is the 14,858th most popular politician (down from 12,526th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 196th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John A. Costello ranks 14,858 out of 15,577Before him are Aslaug Dahl, Dimitrios Maximos, Lotay Tshering, Justiniano Borgoño, Galina Shamrai, and Ælfwald I of Northumbria. After him are Steny Hoyer, Ilias Tsirimokos, Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani, Enrique Múgica, Lindsey Graham, and Stanley Bruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, John A. Costello ranks 230Before him are Erik Lindahl, Willy Birgel, Lorenzo Mangiante, August Gailit, Jetta Goudal, and René Barbier. After him are Arnold Jackson, Audrey Munson, Leo Burnett, Reginald Denny, Paolo Salvi, and Oreste Puliti. Among people deceased in 1976, John A. Costello ranks 208Before him are DeHart Hubbard, María Corda, Jimmy Garrison, Martín Luis Guzmán, Armen Ohanian, and Mortimer Wheeler. After him are Stith Thompson, John Ainsworth-Davis, Mario Alborta, Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Muhammad Sakizli, and James Wong Howe.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John A. Costello ranks 269 out of 501Before him are Terence MacSwiney (1879), Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), Liam Brady (1956), Charles Haughey (1925), John Connolly (1968), and Colm Tóibín (1955). After him are Eoin O'Duffy (1890), Andrea Corr (1974), Graham Norton (1963), John Lynch (1961), Peter Sutherland (1946), and Louis Walsh (1952).

Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, John A. Costello ranks 41Before him are James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665), Liam Cosgrave (1920), Diarmait Mac Murchada (1110), W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Garret FitzGerald (1926), and Charles Haughey (1925). After him are Peter Sutherland (1946), Cathal Brugha (1874), Mairead McGuinness (1959), William Paterson (1745), William Hobson (1792), and Richard Mulcahy (1886).