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John Brown Gordon

1832 - 1904

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John Brown Gordon ((1832-02-06)February 6, 1832 – (1904-01-09)January 9, 1904) was an attorney, a slaveholding planter, general in the Confederate States Army, and a politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become "one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals.": 241  After the war, Gordon strongly opposed Reconstruction during the late 1860s and into the 1870s. A member of the Democratic Party, he was twice elected by the Georgia state legislature as a US Senator (as was the practice at the time), serving from 1873 to 1880, and again from 1891 to 1897. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Brown Gordon has received more than 380,905 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Brown Gordon is the 17,000th most popular politician (down from 15,342nd in 2019), the 11,143rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,709th in 2019) and the 738th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Brown Gordon ranks 17,000 out of 19,576. Before him are Cristóbal Montoro, Riyad Farid Hijab, Harry Pollitt, Ron Brown, Tūheitia Paki, and Tamás Faragó. After him are Avdullah Hoti, Carlos P. Romulo, Rashidi Kawawa, Patrick Manning, Mark Drakeford, and Arthur Barclay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, John Brown Gordon ranks 102. Before him are Juris Alunāns, Henry Seebohm, Lizardo Montero Flores, José Ruperto Monagas, Walter Q. Gresham, and Rebecca Solomon. After him are Samuel Colman, Louise Rayner, and Herbert Vaughan. Among people deceased in 1904, John Brown Gordon ranks 89. Before him are Otto von Böhtlingk, Isaac Roberts, Eduard von Martens, Andrei Ryabushkin, Richard Knill Freeman, and George Salmon. After him are Frances Power Cobbe, Mark Hanna, Charles Foster, and John Bell Hatcher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Brown Gordon ranks 11,143 out of 20,380. Before him are Pat O'Connor (1928), Alexei Panshin (1940), Forrest Towns (1914), John O'Connor (1920), Katherine Rawls (1917), and Arlene Francis (1907). After him are Tom Aldredge (1928), Wade Dominguez (1966), Louis Wilkins (1882), James Daly (1918), Danny Hodge (1932), and Joanna Kerns (1953).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, John Brown Gordon ranks 738. Before him are Ken Salazar (1955), Neil Abercrombie (1938), Elliott Abrams (1948), Stephen Hadley (1947), Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760), and Ron Brown (1941). After him are Barbara Jordan (1936), Isidore Mankofsky (1931), John Adams Dix (1798), Don Young (1933), Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900), and Steny Hoyer (1939).

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