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Mike Gravel

1930 - 2021

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Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel ( grə-VELL; May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) was an American politician and writer who represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party. He ran for president twice in 2008 and 2020. Born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, by French-Canadian immigrant parents, Gravel moved to Alaska in the late 1950s, becoming a real estate developer and entering politics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mike Gravel has received more than 1,578,610 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 30 in 2019). Mike Gravel is the 17,166th most popular politician (down from 15,576th in 2019), the 11,570th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,339th in 2019) and the 766th most popular American Politician.

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  • 41.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mike Gravel ranks 17,166 out of 19,576. Before him are Parviz Davoodi, Ilan Gilon, David Marshall, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, and Neville Cenac. After him are Gaylord Nelson, Bakhytzhan Sagintayev, Anuradha Koirala, Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II, Hans-Peter Friedrich, and Samuel Osgood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Mike Gravel ranks 586. Before him are Jim Nabors, Jiří Skobla, Jerry Vale, Miguel Seijas, Yuriy Tyukalov, and Ronald Stretton. After him are Luki Botha, Elaine Stewart, John Landy, Troy Ruttman, Barry Unsworth, and Muhal Richard Abrams. Among people deceased in 2021, Mike Gravel ranks 615. Before him are Arthur Kopit, Naohiro Ikeda, Margreth Weivers, Gerry Marsden, Igor Zhelezovski, and Gillian Sheen. After him are John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, David Amess, Fofi Gennimata, Bertil Johansson, T. B. Joshua, and Samuel E. Wright.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mike Gravel ranks 11,570 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Ho (1975), Gretchen Carlson (1966), Mackenzie Foy (2000), Peter Kreeft (1937), Kaye Hall (1951), and Grace Cunard (1893). After him are Twyla Tharp (1941), Gaylord Nelson (1916), Erik Spoelstra (1970), Warren G (1970), Daniel Bryan (1981), and Robert S. Woodworth (1869).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Mike Gravel ranks 766. Before him are John B. Anderson (1922), Franklin Farrell (1908), Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (1946), John Henninger Reagan (1818), Margaret Chase Smith (1897), and Jon Kyl (1942). After him are Gaylord Nelson (1916), Samuel Osgood (1747), Amy Klobuchar (1960), Stuart Symington (1901), Jane Irwin Harrison (1804), and Tom Carper (1947).

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