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José Batlle y Ordóñez

1856 - 1929

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José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez ([ˈbaʒe] or [ˈbaʃe]; 23 May 1856 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 20 October 1929), nicknamed Don Pepe, was a prominent Uruguayan politician, who served two terms as President of Uruguay for the Colorado Party. He was the son of a former president and was widely praised for his introduction of his political system, Batllism, to South America and for his role in modernizing Uruguay through his creation of extensive welfare state reforms. In 1898, he served as interim president for a few weeks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Batlle y Ordóñez has received more than 184,791 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). José Batlle y Ordóñez is the 9,075th most popular politician (up from 9,284th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 50th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Uruguayan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 9,075 out of 19,576. Before him are Vladislaus II of Opole, Garnier de Nablus, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Asif Ali Zardari, Alain I of Albret, and William III, Duke of Bavaria. After him are Alfonso II, Count of Provence, Mohammad bin Salman, Vera Aceva, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Şükrü Saracoğlu, and Nambaryn Enkhbayar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 60. Before him are J.-H. Rosny aîné, Dimitar Blagoev, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Louise Catherine Breslau, and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. After him are Karl Lamprecht, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, Ernst Brenner, Alexander Izvolsky, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, and Rudolf Stammler. Among people deceased in 1929, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 56. Before him are Gotō Shinpei, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Clemens von Pirquet, Sergei Nilus, Adolf Meyer, and Henri Gervex. After him are Elfrida Andrée, Millicent Fawcett, Hans Delbrück, P. J. Kennedy, Princess Olga Paley, and Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 52 out of 444. Before him are Manuel Oribe (1792), Pablo Forlán (1945), Venancio Flores (1808), Santos Urdinarán (1900), Miguel Capuccini (1904), and Álvaro Recoba (1976). After him are Ángel Romano (1894), Michele Andreolo (1912), George Hilton (1934), Juan López Fontana (1908), Schubert Gambetta (1920), and Jules Supervielle (1884).

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Among POLITICIANS In Uruguay

Among politicians born in Uruguay, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 12. Before him are Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Bernardo Arévalo (1958), Fructuoso Rivera (1784), Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), Manuel Oribe (1792), and Venancio Flores (1808). After him are Lucía Topolansky (1944), Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925), Aparicio Méndez (1904), Juan Antonio Lavalleja (1784), Luis Lacalle Pou (1973), and Jorge Pacheco Areco (1920).

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