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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mary Harris Jones

1837 - 1930

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Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the socialist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Harris Jones has received more than 913,159 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Mary Harris Jones is the 373rd most popular social activist (down from 315th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Harris Jones ranks 373 out of 538. Before her are Kamala Nehru, Katarina Taikon, Chen Qimei, Hanan Ashrawi, Gustave Moynier, and Lester R. Brown. After her are Evelyn Mase, Estela de Carlotto, Udham Singh, Mahmoud Taleghani, Catharine MacKinnon, and Naziha al-Dulaimi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Mary Harris Jones ranks 73. Before her are Walter Hauser, Altaf Hussain Hali, Tony Robert-Fleury, Ignatz Kolisch, Charles Yerkes, and Jorge Isaacs. After her are Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Alphonse Legros, Wilhelm Lexis, Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Władysław Żeleński, and Artur Grottger. Among people deceased in 1930, Mary Harris Jones ranks 77. Before her are Albert von Le Coq, Misuzu Kaneko, Valeriano Weyler, Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Enrico Forlanini, and Aleksandr Golovin. After her are Moritz Pasch, Florbela Espanca, Max Valier, Vintilă Brătianu, Vladan Đorđević, and Nikolay Kasatkin.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Harris Jones ranks 151 out of 501. Before her are John Sealy Townsend (1868), Edward Sabine (1788), George Browne (1698), George Allman (1812), George Abraham Grierson (1851), and Catald (700). After her are Shelley McNamara (1952), Aphex Twin (1971), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620), Michael William Balfe (1808), and Hugh O'Flaherty (1898).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, Mary Harris Jones ranks 2. Before her are William Howard Russell (1820). After her are Wolfe Tone (1763), Eoin O'Duffy (1890), Robert Emmet (1778), and William Smith O'Brien (1803).

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