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Mary Todd Lincoln

1818 - 1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as the First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky, although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose slavery. Well educated, after finishing-school in her late teens, she moved to Springfield, the capital of Illinois. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Todd Lincoln has received more than 6,028,233 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Mary Todd Lincoln is the 296th most popular companion (up from 308th in 2019), the 1,254th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,388th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Companion.

Mary Todd Lincoln is most famous for being the wife of Abraham Lincoln.

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  • 6.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.16

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  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 296 out of 784. Before her are Martha Washington, Berengaria of Portugal, Marie of Brabant, Queen of France, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Vanessa Paradis, and Sophia of Minsk. After her are Mamie Eisenhower, Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Farida of Egypt, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Melania Trump, and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 20. Before her are Sophie of Württemberg, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Leconte de Lisle, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Thomas Mayne Reid, and Hermann Kolbe. After her are Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Amalia of Oldenburg, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Angelo Secchi, Frederick Douglass, and Zachris Topelius. Among people deceased in 1882, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 15. Before her are Bruno Bauer, William Stanley Jevons, Francesco Hayez, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, and Joseph Liouville. After her are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Vasily Perov, Ewelina Hańska, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, and Henri Giffard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 1,254 out of 20,380. Before her are Evander Holyfield (1962), Jacque Fresco (1916), Marvin Minsky (1927), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Charles Sweeney (1919), and Ethan Hawke (1970). After her are James Irwin (1930), Mike Shinoda (1977), Tecumseh (1768), Jaco Pastorius (1951), Otis Redding (1941), and Phil Hill (1927).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 7. Before her are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Olympias (-375), Priscilla Presley (1945), Rosalynn Carter (1927), Linda McCartney (1941), and Martha Washington (1731). After her are Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Pat Nixon (1912), Abigail Adams (1744), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), and Martha Jefferson (1748).

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