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Leonard Wood

1860 - 1927

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Leonard Wood (October 9, 1860 – August 7, 1927) was a United States Army major general, physician, and public official. He served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba, and Governor-General of the Philippines. He began his military career as an army doctor on the frontier, where he received the Medal of Honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Wood has received more than 847,036 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Leonard Wood is the 16,416th most popular politician (down from 15,312th in 2019), the 9,782nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,646th in 2019) and the 634th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leonard Wood ranks 16,416 out of 19,576Before him are Aslaug Dahl, Edward James Roye, Per Stig Møller, Charles Rosher, Antonella Mularoni, and Mackenzie Bowell. After him are Wael Nader al-Halqi, Reneta Indzhova, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Peter G. Peterson, Panagiotis Pavlidis, and Pinarayi Vijayan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Leonard Wood ranks 139Before him are Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Chandramukhi Basu, Joseph Cook, Daniel Barringer, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, and John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun. After him are Ekaterina Karavelova, James Neill, Gregorio Aglipay, Charles Oman, Lillian Russell, and Juliette Gordon Low. Among people deceased in 1927, Leonard Wood ranks 141Before him are Harald Hansen, Anna Golubkina, Ödön Bodor, Manuel Gondra, Max Weiss, and Édouard Louis Trouessart. After him are Luke Fildes, Otto Blehr, Ira Remsen, George Nichols, Virgilio Mantegazza, and Émile Albrecht.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Wood ranks 9,782 out of 20,380Before him are Harry Turtledove (1949), Katherine MacDonald (1891), Lawrence H. Aller (1913), Victor Schertzinger (1888), Red Mitchell (1927), and Chris Fehn (1973). After him are Carmen Luvana (1981), Melvin Frank (1913), Peter G. Peterson (1926), Dorothy Poynton-Hill (1915), Harvey Mason (1947), and Arthur Laurents (1917).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Leonard Wood ranks 634Before him are Lester Bird (1938), Pete Wilson (1933), Nicholas Katzenbach (1922), Thomas F. Bayard (1828), George Washington Goethals (1858), and Edward James Roye (1815). After him are Peter G. Peterson (1926), John Kasich (1952), Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835), Spark Matsunaga (1916), Alexander Acosta (1969), and Richard Rush (1780).