POLITICIAN

Mitch McConnell

1942 - Today

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Addison Mitchell McConnell III (; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney serving since 1985 as the senior United States senator from Kentucky. McConnell is in his seventh Senate term and is longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He served from 2007 to 2025 as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference, including two stints as minority leader (2007 to 2015 and 2021 to 2025), and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mitch McConnell has received more than 22,598,089 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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  • 23M

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  • 64.70

    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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