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John Diefenbaker

1895 - 1979

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John George Diefenbaker ( DEE-fən-bay-kər; September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was a Canadian politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Canada, from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. Diefenbaker was born in the small town of Neustadt in Southwestern Ontario. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Diefenbaker has received more than 1,423,894 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). John Diefenbaker is the 13,379th most popular politician (down from 12,118th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Canada (down from 253rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Canadian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Diefenbaker ranks 13,379 out of 19,576. Before him are Shoshenq VI, Ture Nerman, Gyula Breyer, Neferuptah, Viktor Nogin, and Nusrat Bhutto. After him are Mutsu Munemitsu, Antti Hackzell, Spurius Lartius, Hisako, Princess Takamado, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, and Manny Mori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, John Diefenbaker ranks 193. Before him are Ngaio Marsh, John J. McCloy, Henry Gunther, Paul Neményi, Harold Hotelling, and Giuseppe Bottai. After him are Max Valier, Ernest Labrousse, Titsian Tabidze, Conchita Supervía, Anita Stewart, and Virginia Rappe. Among people deceased in 1979, John Diefenbaker ranks 174. Before him are Tommaso Landolfi, Paul Meurisse, Waloddi Weibull, Igor Bondarevsky, Donny Hathaway, and Gustav Winckler. After him are Anatoly Kuznetsov, Louis Paul Boon, Yahya Petra of Kelantan, Paul Paray, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, and István Bibó.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Diefenbaker ranks 289 out of 1,622. Before him are André Bessette (1845), Joe Clark (1939), Yannick Bisson (1969), Édouard Gagnon (1918), Terry Sawchuk (1929), and Bill Brack (1935). After him are Natasha Henstridge (1974), George Hodgson (1893), Sunny Leone (1981), Terry Jacks (1944), Katherine DeMille (1911), and Robert Borden (1854).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, John Diefenbaker ranks 22. Before him are John T. Dunlap (1957), Kim Campbell (1947), Louis St. Laurent (1882), David Johnston (1941), Joe Clark (1939), and Terry Sawchuk (1929). After him are Robert Borden (1854), Michael Ignatieff (1947), John Abbott (1821), Arthur Meighen (1874), Tommy Burns (1881), and R. B. Bennett (1870).

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