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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, serving with distinction 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 1,387,526 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Joseph E. Johnston is the 864th most popular military personnel (down from 843rd in 2019), the 2,668th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,714th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 30

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 864 out of 1,468. Before him are Helmut Lent, Abu Bakr ibn Umar, David Farragut, Alexey Maresyev, Gainas, and Janko Bobetko. After him are Hans von Salmuth, Otto Wöhler, Paik Sun-yup, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, and Julius Jacob von Haynau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 18. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Joseph Petzval, Alfred Vail, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. After him are Aloysius Bertrand, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Thiệu Trị, Amir Kabir, Auguste Laurent, and Napoleon Orda. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 42. Before him are Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Théodore de Banville, N. R. Pogson, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Fredrik Pacius, and Mihail Kogălniceanu. After him are Giovanni Morelli, Leon Pinsker, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Hannibal Hamlin, Paul de Lagarde, and John A. Macdonald.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 2,668 out of 18,182. Before him are Edwin Sutherland (1883), John C. Calhoun (1782), Annie Proulx (1935), Richard Beymer (1938), John W. Campbell (1910), and Dan Flavin (1933). After him are Tito Puente (1923), Philip Abelson (1913), Jeff Daniels (1955), Ben Bernanke (1953), James M. Cain (1892), and Besse Cooper (1896).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 43. Before him are Henry H. Arnold (1886), Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), Philip Sheridan (1831), Charlie Wilson (1933), George B. McClellan (1826), and David Farragut (1801). After him are Alexander Haig (1924), Joseph Stilwell (1883), Ernest King (1878), Walton Walker (1889), John Basilone (1916), and David Petraeus (1952).

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