SOCIAL ACTIVIST

John Brown

1800 - 1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith of his upbringing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Brown has received more than 306,246 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). John Brown is the 143rd most popular social activist (down from 131st in 2019), the 1,393rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,273rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Social Activist.

John Brown was a militant abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, John Brown ranks 143 out of 840. Before him are Hilda Gadea, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Alfred Naujocks, Emily Davison, Vinoba Bhave, and Marianne Bachmeier. After him are Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bertha Pappenheim, Meng Huo, Beppe Grillo, Andrés Bonifacio, and Mangal Pandey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, John Brown ranks 12. Before him are Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, John Edward Gray, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Nat Turner, and James Clark Ross. After him are Lars Levi Laestadius, Jacques Paul Migne, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, and Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg. Among people deceased in 1859, John Brown ranks 17. Before him are Washington Irving, Bettina von Arnim, Louis Spohr, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Archduke John of Austria, and Thomas De Quincey. After him are Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, John Austin, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and Alfred Vail.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Brown ranks 1,393 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Gantt (1861), David Duchovny (1960), Sacagawea (1780), Nelson Goodman (1906), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), and Dwight Schultz (1947). After him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Dirk Benedict (1945), Don Cherry (1936), Josiah Warren (1798), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), and William Lipscomb (1919).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, John Brown ranks 17. Before him are Susan B. Anthony (1820), Jody Williams (1950), Bugsy Siegel (1906), Nat Turner (1800), Betty Ford (1918), and George Stinney (1929). After him are Frederick Douglass (1818), Sojourner Truth (1797), Billy Milligan (1955), Emmett Till (1941), Edward Snowden (1983), and Fred Phelps (1929).

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