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Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor

1879 - 1964

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Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor was born in Danville, Virginia and raised in Greenwood, Virginia. Her first marriage, to socialite Robert Gould Shaw II, was unhappy and ended in divorce. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor has received more than 1,655,516 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor is the 11,542nd most popular politician (up from 11,580th in 2019), the 4,629th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,269th in 2019) and the 289th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 11,542 out of 15,577. Before her are Hermann Muhs, Nicolò Contarini, Ayub Khan, Jaime Lusinchi, Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, and Harriet Lane. After her are Han Myeong-sook, Silvestro Valier, Tang Jiaxuan, King Xiang of Zhou, Denis Pushilin, and Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 128. Before her are Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Ion G. Duca, Albert Taillandier, Pavel Bazhov, Zsigmond Móricz, and Benjamin Christensen. After her are Grace Coolidge, Helena Roerich, Ernst Herzfeld, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Petros Persakis, and Ruth St. Denis. Among people deceased in 1964, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 109. Before her are Eugen Varga, Ernst Toch, Anita Malfatti, Rudolph Maté, Brendan Behan, and Ary Barroso. After her are Jim Reeves, Giuseppe Amato, Joseph Schildkraut, Bernhard Goetzke, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, and Rickard Sandler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 4,629 out of 18,182. Before her are Robert Keohane (1941), Gary Peacock (1935), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), and Harriet Lane (1830). After her are Eric Johnson (1954), Clarence Zener (1905), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), Emily Deschanel (1976), Janet Asimov (1926), and William R. Pogue (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ranks 289. Before her are Henry Paulson (1946), Harry Reid (1939), Oliver North (1943), Michael Kahn (1935), Gary Hart (1936), and Harriet Lane (1830). After her are James R. Schlesinger (1929), Pete Rose (1941), Black Kettle (1803), Nick Bollettieri (1931), Bobby Jones (1902), and Lee Friedlander (1934).

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