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Mitch McConnell

1942 - Today

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Addison Mitchell McConnell III ( mə-KON-əl; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney who has been serving as senate minority leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985, the longest serving senator in his state's history. McConnell has been the leader of the Senate Republican Conference since 2007, including as majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest serving Senate party leader in U.S. history. McConnell holds conservative political positions, although he was known as a pragmatist and a moderate Republican early in his political career. He led opposition to stricter campaign finance laws, culminating in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mitch McConnell has received more than 21,721,363 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Mitch McConnell is the 5,387th most popular politician (up from 8,024th in 2019), the 1,736th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,817th in 2019) and the 119th most popular American Politician.

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  • 22M

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  • 58.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mitch McConnell ranks 5,387 out of 19,576. Before him are Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Ali Bey al-Kabir, Philip II Philoromaeus, Stentor, and Konstantin Dejanović. After him are Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy, Gyula Gömbös, Cleombrotus I, Princess Henriette of Belgium, Publius Valerius Publicola, and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Mitch McConnell ranks 129. Before him are Felice Gimondi, Sixto Rodriguez, Frank Zane, Ivo Viktor, Fred Ward, and Roger Ebert. After him are Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Evaristo Carvalho, Geneviève Bujold, Robert H. Grubbs, Muslim Magomayev, and Vasily Alekseyev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mitch McConnell ranks 1,736 out of 20,380. Before him are Dean Stockwell (1936), John Densmore (1944), Roger Ebert (1942), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Saul Kripke (1940), and Alan Greenspan (1926). After him are Hiram Bingham III (1875), Joe Satriani (1956), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925), Ving Rhames (1959), Sol LeWitt (1928), and Henry Ford II (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Mitch McConnell ranks 119. Before him are Conrad Hilton (1887), Harvey Milk (1930), Caroline Kennedy (1957), Mitt Romney (1947), Chief Seattle (1786), and Mark Felt (1913). After him are Hiram Bingham III (1875), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Clement Greenberg (1909), Spiro Agnew (1918), William Walker (1824), and Paul Wolfowitz (1943).

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