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Pat Brown

1905 - 1996

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Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he was later elected Attorney General of California in 1950, before becoming the state's governor after the 1958 California gubernatorial election. Born in San Francisco, Brown had an early interest in speaking and politics. He skipped college and he earned an LL.B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pat Brown has received more than 1,067,995 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Pat Brown is the 16,932nd most popular politician (down from 15,686th in 2019), the 10,968th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,613th in 2019) and the 725th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pat Browns by language

Over the past year Pat Brown has had the most page views in the with 118,577 views, followed by Spanish (3,828), and Italian (2,304). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Scots (67.29%), Egyptian Arabic (42.17%), and Ukrainian (39.75%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pat Brown ranks 16,932 out of 19,576. Before him are Ted Sorensen, Hossein Sheikholeslam, Jo Cox, Ludger Beerbaum, J. Donald Cameron, and Sophie in 't Veld. After him are Tomomi Inada, Ramil Safarov, Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, Tetyana Dorovskikh, Andrew Holness, and Alexandru Athanasiu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Pat Brown ranks 380. Before him are Ivan Artobolevsky, Pentti Haanpää, The Boswell Sisters, Eleanor Audley, Erwin Keller, and Ruth Moufang. After him are Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Constant Lambert, Eddie Condon, Edwin H. Colbert, José Tapia, and Charles Lane. Among people deceased in 1996, Pat Brown ranks 322. Before him are Mario Savio, Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, Peter Glenville, Evelyn Hooker, Sultan Rahi, and Zdeněk Škrland. After him are Swami Rama, Sverre Sørsdal, Willi Heeks, Otto Licha, Ron Brown, and Konstantin Loktev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pat Brown ranks 10,968 out of 20,380. Before him are Sheb Wooley (1921), Henriette Avram (1919), George Karl (1951), Bobbie Gentry (1942), Jeffrey Williams (1958), and Marjorie Rambeau (1889). After him are Raylene (1977), Slim Thug (1980), Kristy McNichol (1962), Edwin Graves (1897), Joy Page (1924), and Michael Moorer (1967).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Pat Brown ranks 725. Before him are Jim Inhofe (1934), Jeremiah Denton (1924), Bill Weld (1945), Robert P. Patterson (1891), Ted Sorensen (1928), and J. Donald Cameron (1833). After him are William Samuel Johnson (1727), Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817), Thomas Bibb (1783), Howard Dean (1948), Robert B. Anderson (1910), and Fitzhugh Lee (1835).

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