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Joseph Lyons

1879 - 1939

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Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939) was an Australian politician who was the tenth prime minister of Australia, in office from 1932 until his death in 1939. He began his career in the Australian Labor Party (ALP), but became the founding leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) after the Australian Labor Party split of 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Lyons has received more than 440,726 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Joseph Lyons is the 15,484th most popular politician (down from 13,958th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Australia (up from 303rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Australian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph Lyons ranks 15,484 out of 15,577Before him are John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, Vít Jedlička, Ahmed Kathrada, Rajko Đurić, Paulo d'Eça Leal, and Jean Charest. After him are Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, Einars Repše, Ana Pastor Julián, Herbert Morrison, William Hobson, and Daniel Akaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Joseph Lyons ranks 221Before him are Hamilton Harty, Magnús Guðmundsson, Frank Odberg, Frank Greer, Robert Daniel Carmichael, and Sid Grauman. After him are Bob Crompton, Edward Hennig, Øistein Schirmer, André Roosevelt, C. H. Douglas, and Edwin Montagu. Among people deceased in 1939, Joseph Lyons ranks 133Before him are Louis Eugène Roy, Hugo Jahnke, Alvah Meyer, Alfredo Panzini, Siegfried Flesch, and Chick Webb. After him are Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing, Charles Eastman, Aurelio Mosquera, Jens Bratlie, and Charlotte Despard.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Joseph Lyons ranks 294 out of 925Before him are Lionel Cox (1930), Esna Boyd (1899), Kim So-hyun (1999), Thelma Coyne Long (1918), Hubert Wilkins (1888), and Robert Hughes (1938). After him are Frank Gambale (1958), Josip Šimunić (1978), Arthur Fadden (1894), Paul England (1929), Robert Helpmann (1909), and Gail Chanfreau (1945).

Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Joseph Lyons ranks 27Before him are Michael Jeffery (1937), Stanley Bruce (1883), Earle Page (1880), John McEwen (1900), Andrew Lesnie (1956), and Ben Chifley (1885). After him are Arthur Fadden (1894), Gregory Mathews (1876), Frank Forde (1890), James Scullin (1876), Michael Joseph Savage (1872), and Bill Hayden (1933).