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Mary Todd Lincoln

1818 - 1882

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Mary Ann Lincoln (née Todd; December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the wife of Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States and as such, the first lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Today, she is commonly known as Mary Todd Lincoln, though she did not use the name Todd after marrying. She was a member of a large, wealthy, slave-owning Kentucky family, and was well educated. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Todd Lincoln has received more than 4,047,518 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Mary Todd Lincoln is the 277th most popular companion (up from 280th in 2019), the 1,218th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Companion.

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

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  • 69.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 277 out of 687. Before her are Clarice Orsini, Jeanne d'Évreux, Julia Drusilla, Christina of Saxony, Louise of Great Britain, and Pat Nixon. After her are Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Ealhswith, Flavia Maximiana Theodora, Constance of Castile, Statilia Messalina, and Dorothea of Brandenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 20. Before her are Leconte de Lisle, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Sophie of Württemberg, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Angelo Secchi, and Emperor Norton. After her are Thomas Mayne Reid, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Amalia of Oldenburg, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Frederick Douglass, and Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria. Among people deceased in 1882, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 16. Before her are Louis Blanc, William Stanley Jevons, Francesco Hayez, Joseph Liouville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Léon Gambetta. After her are Sergey Nechayev, Vasily Perov, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Henri Giffard, and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 1,218 out of 15,968. Before her are Frank B. Kellogg (1856), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Lita Grey (1908), Bob Newhart (1929), Pat Nixon (1912), and Britney Spears (1981). After her are Cesar Romero (1907), Alyson Hannigan (1974), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Virginia Apgar (1909), Sam Cooke (1931), and Ken Kesey (1935).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 6. Before her are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Priscilla Presley (1945), Michelle Obama (1964), Linda McCartney (1941), and Pat Nixon (1912). After her are Laura Bush (1946), Rosalynn Carter (1927), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Martha Washington (1731), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), and Abigail Adams (1744).

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