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John Ashcroft

1942 - Today

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John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former politician who served as the 79th United States attorney general under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. A Republican from Missouri, Ashcroft represented the state in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2001, and held statewide office as the 29th auditor (1973–1975), 38th attorney general (1976–1985), and 50th governor of Missouri (1985–1993). He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm. Ashcroft graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1960 before receiving a J.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ashcroft has received more than 2,186,150 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). John Ashcroft is the 15,929th most popular politician (down from 13,218th in 2019), the 8,827th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,183rd in 2019) and the 565th most popular American Politician.

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  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Ashcroft ranks 15,929 out of 19,576. Before him are Kono Yasui, Manuel Robles Pezuela, Jalal Dabagh, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Béla Las-Torres, and Giovanni Battista Rabino. After him are Yun Chi-young, Manuel Chaves, Jejomar Binay, Retno Marsudi, Angus King, and James Comey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, John Ashcroft ranks 574. Before him are Nancy Richey, Sila María Calderón, Juan Carlos Oleniak, Jerry Jones, Robert Christgau, and Kees Verkerk. After him are Jejomar Binay, Ivan Koloff, Norman Greenbaum, Dinara Asanova, Javier Fragoso, and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Ashcroft ranks 8,827 out of 20,380. Before him are Helen Murray Free (1923), Norman Bel Geddes (1893), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Laura La Plante (1904), T. Keith Glennan (1905), and Jack McGee (1949). After him are Ann Rule (1931), Bobby Hutcherson (1941), Viola Dana (1897), Sherman Hemsley (1938), Jack Parsons (1914), and Alexandra Breckenridge (1982).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John Ashcroft ranks 565. Before him are Tom Vilsack (1950), Hamilton Fish (1808), John Adair (1757), John F. Kelly (1950), Mike Dunleavy (1961), and H. R. Haldeman (1926). After him are Angus King (1944), James Comey (1960), Ben Cardin (1943), Henry Dearborn (1751), R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), and William L. Marcy (1786).

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