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Leo Frank

1884 - 1915

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Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American lynching victim convicted in 1913 of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial, conviction, and unsuccessful appeals attracted national attention. His kidnapping from prison and lynching became the focus of social, regional, political, and racial concerns, particularly regarding antisemitism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Frank has received more than 3,323,411 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Leo Frank is the 14th most popular lawyer (up from 49th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,773rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 24

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  • 10.77

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  • 1.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Leo Frank ranks 14 out of 136. Before him are Henri La Fontaine, Gaius, Al-Nawawi, Aemilius Papinianus, Tobias Asser, and Rudolf von Jhering. After him are Tribonian, Muhammad al-Shaybani, Raphael Lemkin, Al-Tahawi, Carla Del Ponte, and Al-Mawardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Leo Frank ranks 32. Before him are Walther von Reichenau, Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Jannings, Rajendra Prasad, Edward Sapir, and Rudolf Bultmann. After him are Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Panait Istrati, Otto Rank, and Étienne Gilson. Among people deceased in 1915, Leo Frank ranks 11. Before him are Porfirio Díaz, Henry Moseley, Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, and Clara Immerwahr. After him are Wilhelm Windelband, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Michel Bréal, Émile Waldteufel, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and Armand Peugeot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leo Frank ranks 797 out of 20,380. Before him are Douglass North (1920), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), William Alfred Fowler (1911), George Eastman (1854), John Goodman (1952), and William Saroyan (1908). After him are Frances McDormand (1957), Harold Lasswell (1902), James Cronin (1931), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), and Ted Kennedy (1932).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Leo Frank ranks 2. Before him are J. Edgar Hoover (1895). After him are John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Warren Christopher (1925), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Robert Bilott (1965), Paul Alexander (1946), Louis Brandeis (1856), Roy Cohn (1927), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), and James B. Donovan (1916).

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