MILITARY PERSONNEL

Joseph E. Johnston

1807 - 1891

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Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 – March 21, 1891) was an American career army officer, who served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) and the Seminole Wars. After Virginia declared secession from the United States, he entered the Confederate States Army as one of its most senior general officers. From 1888 to 1889 he was a vice president, from 1889 to 1890 president, of the Aztec Club of 1847. Johnston was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in the same class as Robert E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph E. Johnston has received more than 1,488,305 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Joseph E. Johnston is the 773rd most popular military personnel (up from 864th in 2019), the 2,263rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,661st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 773 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexios Apokaukos, Peter Lacy, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Dan Halutz, Walter Stennes, and François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg. After him are Ettore Bastico, Qin Liangyu, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Cleombrotus, Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, and Markos Botsaris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 17. Before him are Joseph Petzval, Harriet Taylor Mill, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, and Alfred Vail. After him are Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Aloysius Bertrand, Amir Kabir, Thiệu Trị, and Hermann Burmeister. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 38. Before him are Johan Jongkind, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Petzval, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, and Leon Pinsker. After him are Théodore de Banville, Fredrik Pacius, Pierre de Decker, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Jean Stas, and N. R. Pogson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 2,263 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Johnny Winter (1944), Stanley Donen (1924), Chazz Palminteri (1952), Michael Walzer (1935), and Betty Friedan (1921). After him are Baruch Goldstein (1956), Carol Gilligan (1936), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), John Conyers (1929), and Ray Harryhausen (1920).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 33. Before him are William Halsey Jr. (1882), Abner Doubleday (1819), James Bowie (1796), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), George B. McClellan (1826), and Doc Holliday (1851). After him are Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Alexander Haig (1924), David Farragut (1801), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), and Joseph Stilwell (1883).

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