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Lewis Strauss

1896 - 1974

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Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss ( STRAWZ; January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer. He was one of the original members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 and he served as the commission's chairman in the 1950s. Strauss was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons after World War II, nuclear energy policy, and nuclear power in the United States. Raised in Richmond, Virginia, Strauss became an assistant to Herbert Hoover as part of the Commission for Relief in Belgium during World War I and the American Relief Administration after that. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lewis Strauss is the 3,140th most popular politician (down from 2,864th in 2019), the 1,132nd most popular biography from United States (down from 908th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lewis Strauss ranks 3,140 out of 19,576. Before him are Askia Mohammad I, Samudragupta, Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, Emperor Go-Kōmyō, Anastasio Somoza García, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. After him are Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Theudebald, Constans II, John Mahama, Bartolomeo Eustachi, and John, Duke of Berry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Lewis Strauss ranks 40. Before him are Sandro Pertini, Léon Theremin, Oswald Mosley, Célestin Freinet, Wallace Carothers, and Anastasio Somoza García. After him are John Dos Passos, Italo Balbo, Nobusuke Kishi, Nikolay Semyonov, Paulino Alcántara, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert. Among people deceased in 1974, Lewis Strauss ranks 30. Before him are Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington, Jacob L. Moreno, Peng Dehuai, Otto Strasser, and Satyendra Nath Bose. After him are Zalman Shazar, Louis Kahn, Fritz Zwicky, Carl Spaatz, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Walter Brennan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Strauss ranks 1,132 out of 20,380. Before him are David Fincher (1962), Mahershala Ali (1974), George H. Hitchings (1905), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), and L. Frank Baum (1856). After him are William Kaelin Jr. (1957), William D. Leahy (1875), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), Adam Sandler (1966), Robert Ludlum (1927), and William Saroyan (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Lewis Strauss ranks 102. Before him are Crazy Horse (1840), Greg Abbott (1957), Joseph McCarthy (1908), John Sherman (1823), Kamehameha I (1758), and James Comey (1960). After him are Frank B. Kellogg (1856), William Perry (1927), Edward Stettinius Jr. (1900), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Frank Caprio (1936), and Ted Kennedy (1932).

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