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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 175,355 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). José Batlle y Ordóñez is the 9,311th most popular politician (down from 8,779th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Uruguay and the 11th most popular Uruguayan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 9,311 out of 15,577Before him are Carl Adolph Agardh, Enrique Cerezo, Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Agron, Polina Astakhova, and Traicho Kostov. After him are Vasiliy Ulrikh, Slimane of Morocco, Louis I of Naples, Pellegrino Rossi, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony, and Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 61Before him are Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Felix Mottl, Dimitar Blagoev, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Georg von der Marwitz, and Louise Catherine Breslau. After him are J.-H. Rosny aîné, Giuseppe Martucci, Alexander Izvolsky, Semyon Alapin, Carl Peters, and Booker T. Washington. Among people deceased in 1929, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 60Before him are P. J. Kennedy, André Messager, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Henri Gervex, Georg von der Marwitz, and Hans Delbrück. After him are Frederick Abberline, Oldfield Thomas, António José de Almeida, Millicent Fawcett, Elfrida Andrée, and Raoul Pictet.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 50 out of 370Before him are Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925), Venancio Flores (1808), Ángel Romano (1894), Álvaro Gestido (1907), George Hilton (1934), and Juan López Fontana (1908). After him are Víctor Rodríguez Andrade (1927), Diego Godín (1986), Pablo Forlán (1945), Carlos Borges (1932), Álvaro Recoba (1976), and Jules Supervielle (1884).

Among POLITICIANS In Uruguay

Among politicians born in Uruguay, José Batlle y Ordóñez ranks 11Before him are Julio María Sanguinetti (1936), Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), Jorge Batlle (1927), Fructuoso Rivera (1784), Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925), and Venancio Flores (1808). After him are Manuel Oribe (1792), Aparicio Méndez (1904), Lucía Topolansky (1944), Rafael Addiego Bruno (1923), Alberto Demicheli (1896), and Juan Antonio Lavalleja (1784).