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Joseph Grew

1880 - 1965

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Joseph Clark Grew (May 27, 1880 – May 25, 1965) was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. He is best known as the ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941 and as a high official in the State Department in Washington from 1944 to 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Grew has received more than 220,408 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph Grew is the 61st most popular diplomat (down from 56th in 2019), the 5,063rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,606th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Diplomat.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Joseph Grew ranks 61 out of 90. Before him are Adam von Trott zu Solz, Jules Cambon, Ambrogio Contarini, Ernest Mason Satow, Paul Schmidt, and Adlai Stevenson II. After him are Edward M. House, Filippo Grandi, Vatslav Vorovsky, Yasushi Akashi, Max Jakobson, and J. Christopher Stevens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Joseph Grew ranks 135. Before him are Margit Kaffka, Louis Wolheim, William Joseph Simmons, Herbert Brenon, Lipót Fejér, and Mikheil Javakhishvili. After him are Ernest Oppenheimer, Cora Sandel, Lajos Bíró, Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas, Konrad von Preysing, and Conrad Albrecht. Among people deceased in 1965, Joseph Grew ranks 117. Before him are Ludwik Rajchman, Edgar Ende, Ramón Gil, Johannes Bobrowski, Adlai Stevenson II, and Bob King. After him are Mae Murray, Arthur Holmes, Vladimir Gardin, Alejandro Casona, Karl Allmendinger, and Albert Gutterson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Grew ranks 5,063 out of 20,380. Before him are Arthur Blake (1872), Randy Crawford (1952), Rockwell Kent (1882), Josiah Royce (1855), Louis J. Mordell (1888), and Smedley Butler (1881). After him are Louis Brandeis (1856), Tony Randall (1920), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Verne Troyer (1969), Daniel Webster (1782), and Rebecca Romijn (1972).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Joseph Grew ranks 13. Before him are Dean Acheson (1893), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), William J. Burns (1956), Richard Holbrooke (1941), Victoria Nuland (1961), and Adlai Stevenson II (1900). After him are Edward M. House (1858), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), Richard Armitage (1945), Wendy Sherman (1949), Adolph Dubs (1920), and Sumner Welles (1892).

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