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Manuel de la Peña y Peña

1789 - 1850

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José Manuel de la Peña y Peña (10 March 1789 – 2 January 1850) was a Mexican lawyer and judge, who served two non-consecutive, but closely following terms as the president of Mexico during the Mexican American War. In contrast to many other nineteenth century Mexican presidents, he never served in the military, instead coming from a distinguished legal background. He was foreign minister and a member of the peace party whom under the presidency of Jose Joaquin Herrera sought to avoid a war with the United States at a time of rising tensions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel de la Peña y Peña has received more than 80,853 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Manuel de la Peña y Peña is the 13,468th most popular politician (down from 13,169th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 223rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Mexican Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Manuel de la Peña y Peña ranks 13,468 out of 19,576. Before him are Eric Shinseki, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Paweł Adamowicz, Walter Breisky, Carl Vaugoin, and Publius Decius Mus. After him are Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Mario Abdo Benítez, Vladimir Krutov, Huang Ju, José Joaquín Pérez, and Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Manuel de la Peña y Peña ranks 43. Before him are Cesare Balbo, Peter Joseph Lenné, Leona Vicario, Carlos Soublette, Thaddeus Bulgarin, and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger. After him are Michel Félix Dunal, Joséphine Fodor, Martín Javier Mina y Larrea, Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul, Thomas Ewing, and William John Swainson. Among people deceased in 1850, Manuel de la Peña y Peña ranks 51. Before him are Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, Jean Broc, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, and Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela. After him are Garlieb Merkel, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Adoniram Judson, Valentín Canalizo, Giuseppe Giusti, and Johann Jakob Bernhardi.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Manuel de la Peña y Peña ranks 205 out of 729. Before him are Leona Vicario (1789), Juan O'Gorman (1905), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Guillermo Arriaga (1958), Ernesto Alonso (1917), and Abraham Laboriel (1947). After him are Eulalio Gutiérrez (1881), Lucía Méndez (1955), Laura Zapata (1956), Cuauhtémoc Blanco (1973), Andrés Quintana Roo (1787), and Rosenda Monteros (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Manuel de la Peña y Peña ranks 72. Before him are Luis Donaldo Colosio (1950), Juan N. Méndez (1820), Mariano Paredes (1797), José María Bocanegra (1787), Manuel Gómez Pedraza (1789), and Miguel Barragán (1789). After him are Eulalio Gutiérrez (1881), Andrés Quintana Roo (1787), Melchor Múzquiz (1790), José Mariano Salas (1797), Sergio Pitol (1933), and Juan Álvarez (1790).

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