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Lou Henry Hoover

1874 - 1944

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Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was an American philanthropist, geologist, and the first lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President Herbert Hoover. She was active in community organizations and volunteer groups throughout her life, including the Girl Scouts of the USA, which she led from 1922 to 1925 and from 1935 to 1937. Throughout her life, Hoover supported women's rights and women's independence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lou Henry Hoover has received more than 1,263,308 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Lou Henry Hoover is the 10,134th most popular politician (down from 9,713th in 2019), the 3,544th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,551st in 2019) and the 227th most popular American Politician.

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 4.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lou Henry Hoover ranks 10,134 out of 19,576. Before her are Arsenio Martínez Campos, Benedetto Cairoli, Constans II, Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany, Johannes Popitz, and Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova. After her are Nitta Yoshisada, Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Automedon, Vasil Radoslavov, and Ebbe Schwartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Lou Henry Hoover ranks 100. Before her are François Coty, Joaquín Torres-García, Constantin Ion Parhon, Romaine Brooks, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, and William Foulke. After her are Nicolae Rădescu, Rudolf Maister, Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Oskar Nedbal, Johan Gunnar Andersson, and Georges Lefebvre. Among people deceased in 1944, Lou Henry Hoover ranks 167. Before her are Eduard Wagner, Itzhak Katzenelson, Alberts Kviesis, Motobu Chōki, Martin Kutta, and Ramón Castillo. After her are Benjamin Fondane, Endre Kabos, Gabriel Hanotaux, Orde Wingate, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lou Henry Hoover ranks 3,544 out of 20,380. Before her are Larry Niven (1938), Robert Lansing (1864), Carl Sandburg (1878), Don Norman (1935), Richard Beymer (1938), and Paul Gleason (1939). After her are Jim Brown (1936), Barbara Hendricks (1948), Rosemary Clooney (1928), René Auberjonois (1940), Jerome Kern (1885), and Marshall Bell (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Lou Henry Hoover ranks 227. Before her are James R. Schlesinger (1929), Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882), Steve Bannon (1953), James Forrestal (1892), Marie Smith Jones (1918), and Robert Lansing (1864). After her are Dolley Madison (1768), Kamehameha V (1830), Bobby Jones (1902), Frank Caprio (1936), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), and Ignacio Zaragoza (1829).

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