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Oliver Winchester

1810 - 1880

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Oliver Fisher Winchester (November 30, 1810 – December 10, 1880) was an American businessman and politician, best known as being the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Winchester has received more than 535,157 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Winchester is the 8,877th most popular politician (down from 6,492nd in 2019), the 3,013th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,217th in 2019) and the 190th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Oliver Winchester ranks 8,877 out of 19,576Before him are Louis Gerhard De Geer, Béni Kállay, Étienne Tshisekedi, Georges d'Amboise, Katō Tomosaburō, and Kaleb of Axum. After him are Boris Kidrič, Butigeidis, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Foday Sankoh, and Kormisosh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Oliver Winchester ranks 38Before him are Ole Bull, Jules Perrot, Wilhelm Marstrand, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Karel Hynek Mácha, and Christen Købke. After him are Louise Colet, Margaret Fuller, Ferdinand David, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Stanko Vraz, and Alexandre Calame. Among people deceased in 1880, Oliver Winchester ranks 23Before him are Léon Cogniet, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Ole Bull, Arnold Ruge, Sunanda Kumariratana, and James Craig Watson. After him are Friedrich Bayer, Jules Favre, Raden Saleh, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, and Robert Fortune.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Oliver Winchester ranks 3,013 out of 20,380Before him are Sydne Rome (1951), Esther Williams (1921), Frank Jarvis (1878), Tim Russ (1956), John Hughes (1950), and Dominic Chianese (1931). After him are Robert Rossen (1908), Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), Dylan McDermott (1961), Liev Schreiber (1967), Robert Morris (1931), and Richard Lester (1932).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Oliver Winchester ranks 190Before him are Ronald Inglehart (1934), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Elihu Root (1845), Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), Henry Wilson (1812), and Jesse Ventura (1951). After him are George Mason (1725), Levi P. Morton (1824), Mangas Coloradas (1792), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), Bob Dole (1923), and James S. Sherman (1855).