POLITICIAN

Lawrence Eagleburger

1930 - 2011

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Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (August 1, 1930 – June 4, 2011) was an American statesman and career diplomat, who served briefly as the secretary of state under President George H. W. Bush from December 1992 to January 1993, one of the shortest terms in modern history. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and as deputy secretary of state to James Baker under George H. W. Bush. Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service Officer to have served as secretary of state. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Eagleburger has received more than 612,810 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Lawrence Eagleburger is the 11,647th most popular politician (down from 9,496th in 2019), the 4,325th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,463rd in 2019) and the 288th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lawrence Eagleburger ranks 11,647 out of 19,576Before him are Constantine Lekapenos, Juan Almonte, Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Sempad the Constable, and Mithridates I of the Bosporus. After him are Maciej Rataj, Charles James Fox, Peter Pellegrini, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus, and Edward Lowassa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Lawrence Eagleburger ranks 280Before him are Egon Klepsch, Paul Mazursky, José María Zárraga, Herbert Erhardt, Little Walter, and Rubén Morán. After him are Jorma Panula, Julio Abbadie, Jan Olszewski, Ryszard Kukliński, Egon Bondy, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Among people deceased in 2011, Lawrence Eagleburger ranks 182Before him are Anne Francis, Mutassim Gaddafi, Ingvar Wixell, Seve Ballesteros, M. F. Husain, and Paulette Dubost. After him are Romuald Klim, Würzel, Clarence Clemons, Arnošt Lustig, Ricky Hui, and Jagjit Singh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Eagleburger ranks 4,325 out of 20,380Before him are Patti LaBelle (1944), Frank Morgan (1890), Schuyler Colfax (1823), Pitbull (1981), Little Walter (1930), and Tommy Dorsey (1905). After him are Steven Holl (1947), Phylicia Rashad (1948), Lara Flynn Boyle (1970), Spencer Johnson (1938), Mike Bongiorno (1924), and Childe Hassam (1859).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Lawrence Eagleburger ranks 288Before him are Huey Long (1893), Harry Hopkins (1890), Newt Gingrich (1943), Jeannette Rankin (1880), Sanford B. Dole (1844), and Schuyler Colfax (1823). After him are Moses Finley (1912), W. Averell Harriman (1891), Kevin McCarthy (1965), Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772), Edmund Muskie (1914), and Jubal Early (1816).