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John Magufuli

1959 - 2021

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John Pombe Joseph Magufuli (29 October 1959 – 17 March 2021) was the fifth president of Tanzania, serving from 2015 until his death in 2021. He served as Minister of Works, Transport and Communications from 2000 to 2005 and 2010 to 2015 and was chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2019 to 2020.First elected as a Member of Parliament in 1995, he served in the Cabinet of Tanzania as Deputy Minister of Works from 1995 to 2000, Minister of Works from 2000 to 2005, Minister of Lands and Human Settlement from 2006 to 2008, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries from 2008 to 2010, and as Minister of Works for a second time from 2010 to 2015.Running as the candidate of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), the country's dominant party, Magufuli won the October 2015 presidential election and was sworn in on 5 November 2015; he was re-elected in 2020. He ran on a platform of reducing government corruption and spending while also investing in Tanzania's industries, but his rule had autocratic tendencies, as seen in restrictions on freedom of speech, restrictions on LGBTQ rights, and a crackdown on members of the political opposition and civil society groups. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Magufuli has received more than 2,580,328 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). John Magufuli is the 9,671st most popular politician (down from 8,324th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Tanzania (down from 6th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Tanzanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Magufuli ranks 9,671 out of 15,577Before him are Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Mohammad Beheshti, Ibn al-Qalanisi, El Hadj Umar Tall, Philinna, and Mirko Cvetković. After him are Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Charlie Whiting, Demetrius II of Georgia, Al-Musta'in, J. R. Jayewardene, and John I of Trebizond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, John Magufuli ranks 108Before him are Donna Murphy, Alessandro Nannini, Stephen Harper, David Shore, Byung-Chul Han, and Jon Fosse. After him are Abdul Ahad Mohmand, R. A. Salvatore, Helmuth Duckadam, Mark Williams, Peter Mensah, and Vazgen Sargsyan. Among people deceased in 2021, John Magufuli ranks 256Before him are Giacomo Capuzzi, Umberto Colombo, Carla Fracci, Bell hooks, El Risitas, and Zlatko Kranjčar. After him are Graham McRae, Yitzhak Arad, Lee Wan-koo, Vasily Lanovoy, Judith Reisman, and Sándor Puhl.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, John Magufuli ranks 10 out of 32Before him are Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960), Tippu Tip (1837), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), and Jakaya Kikwete (1951). After him are Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Mizengo Pinda (1948), Polycarp Pengo (1944), Laurean Rugambwa (1912), and Marin Hinkle (1966).

Among POLITICIANS In Tanzania

Among politicians born in Tanzania, John Magufuli ranks 8Before him are Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960), Tippu Tip (1837), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), and Jakaya Kikwete (1951). After him are Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Mizengo Pinda (1948), Kassim Majaliwa (1961), Rashidi Kawawa (1926), and Asha-Rose Migiro (1956).

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