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John Seigenthaler

1927 - 2014

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John Lawrence Seigenthaler ( SEE-gən-thaw-lər; July 27, 1927 – July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights. Seigenthaler joined the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean in 1949, resigning in 1960 to act as Robert F. Kennedy's administrative assistant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Seigenthaler has received more than 310,039 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Seigenthaler is the 5,871st most popular writer (down from 5,344th in 2019), the 11,343rd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,836th in 2019) and the 846th most popular American Writer.

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  • 310k

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  • 39.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Seigenthaler ranks 5,871 out of 5,755. Before him are Caryl Churchill, Alexei Panshin, Bessie Head, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Leyla Aliyeva, and Joumana Haddad. After him are Graciano Rocchigiani, Dorothy Allison, Stephen Chbosky, Catherine Cookson, Rose Tremain, and James Gleick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, John Seigenthaler ranks 402. Before him are Abby Mann, Guy Mitchell, Ann Gillis, Anjali Devi, Sahana Pradhan, and Abdul Hamid. After him are Jim Fuchs, Cleo Laine, Annapurna Devi, Sada Thompson, Prem Nazir, and Krishan Kant. Among people deceased in 2014, John Seigenthaler ranks 457. Before him are Mavis Gallant, Tony Crook, Sahana Pradhan, Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, and Ruben Kun. After him are Gerald Wilson, Ann B. Davis, Zohra Sehgal, Béla Várady, Viscera, and Peter Sculthorpe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Seigenthaler ranks 11,343 out of 18,182. Before him are Ray Price (1926), Dwight Frye (1899), Diplo (1978), Nellie Connally (1919), Lita (1975), and Irene Worth (1916). After him are Nathan Chen (1999), Howell Cobb (1815), Alex Skolnick (1968), Cameron Monaghan (1993), Sean Kinney (1966), and Mark Romanek (1959).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Seigenthaler ranks 846. Before him are Jill Abramson (1954), Hanya Yanagihara (1974), Katie Couric (1957), Norman Podhoretz (1930), Alexei Panshin (1940), and Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872). After him are Dorothy Allison (1949), Stephen Chbosky (1970), James Gleick (1954), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), William H. Gass (1924), and Wilma Mankiller (1945).

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