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John Smith

1938 - 1994

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John Smith (13 September 1938 – 12 May 1994) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death from a heart attack in May 1994. He was also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monklands East. Smith first entered Parliament in 1970 and, following junior ministerial roles as Minister of State for Energy (1975–1976) and Minister of State for the Privy Council Office (1976–1978), he entered the Cabinet towards the end of James Callaghan's tenure as Prime Minister, serving as Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade (1978–1979). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Smith has received more than 362,282 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Smith is the 15,336th most popular politician (down from 13,671st in 2019), the 4,689th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,267th in 2019) and the 558th most popular British Politician.

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  • 23

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  • 1.46

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  • 4.29

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Smith ranks 15,336 out of 15,577. Before him are Waldemar Pawlak, Lipit-Enlil, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Ella Pamfilova, Henri Emmanuelli, and Kim Sol-song. After him are Chokri Belaid, Miyeegombyn Enkhbold, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Michael Glos, Tomas Gustafson, and Gopal Swarup Pathak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, John Smith ranks 469. Before him are Lagumot Harris, Salvatore Morale, Boris Lagutin, Shyamala Gopalan, Bohumil Němeček, and Giampaolo Menichelli. After him are Wiesław Maniak, Keith Greene, Paul Bartel, Nikolay Smaga, Napoleon Chagnon, and Jack Jones. Among people deceased in 1994, John Smith ranks 290. Before him are Jule Styne, Antal Kocsis, Albert Decourtray, Ellsworth Vines, Kristen Pfaff, and Jacques Dimont. After him are Ralph Miliband, Esther Ralston, Raymond Scott, Sam Hanks, Martha Raye, and Stephen McNally.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Smith ranks 4,689 out of 7,765. Before him are David Mackenzie (1966), Edgar Syers (1863), Edmund Gosse (1849), Justin Wilson (1978), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823), and Geoffrey Unsworth (1914). After him are Jodie Comer (1993), Andrea Arnold (1961), Ann Lee (1967), James Frain (1968), Phil Foden (2000), and Mary Beard (1955).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Smith ranks 558. Before him are Samuel Plimsoll (1824), Neil Kinnock (1942), Lindsay Hoyle (1957), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), and George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823). After him are Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868), George Reid (1845), Mackenzie Bowell (1823), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), Titus Oates (1649), and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716).

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