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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 United States Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2005. He previously held various positions in Missouri politics; as Auditor of Missouri (1973–1975), Attorney General of Missouri (1976–1985), Governor of Missouri (1985–1993), and as a United States Senator representing Missouri (1995–2001). 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. from the University of Chicago Law School. After unsuccessfully running for the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ashcroft has received more than 1,993,863 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). John Ashcroft is the 13,263rd most popular politician (up from 13,426th in 2019), the 6,196th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,077th in 2019) and the 388th most popular American Politician.

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  • 35

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  • 1.78

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  • 5.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Ashcroft ranks 13,263 out of 15,577Before him are Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Franco Trappoli, Jean Tiberi, Gavriil Popov, Mayawati, and Nanfadima Magassouba. After him are Vladan Đorđević, Adda of Bernicia, Serge Telle, José Mariano Salas, Alfredo Baldomir, and Smail Hamdani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, John Ashcroft ranks 418Before him are Jaroslav Holík, Johny Schleck, Jonathan Williams, Vinicio Cerezo, Ariel Dorfman, and Lola Falana. After him are Dobromir Zhechev, Peter Tork, Ramiro de León Carpio, Lutz D. Schmadel, Donald Rayfield, and Dith Pran.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Ashcroft ranks 6,196 out of 18,182Before him are Charlie Byrd (1925), Lola Falana (1942), Richard Posner (1939), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), Blind Willie McTell (1898), and Kerry Washington (1977). After him are Michael Andretti (1962), Vanessa Marcil (1968), Steve Porcaro (1957), David M. Brown (1956), Chad Michael Murray (1981), and Irving Wallace (1916).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John Ashcroft ranks 388Before him are Larry O'Brien (1917), Salmon P. Chase (1808), Shirley Chisholm (1924), Charles Lang (1902), Al Smith (1873), and Anna Harrison (1775). After him are Vernon A. Walters (1917), Jay Garner (1938), Sarah Childress Polk (1803), Paul H. O'Neill (1935), John Podesta (1949), and Laurance Rockefeller (1910).