POLITICIAN

Peter G. Peterson

1926 - 2018

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Peter George Peterson (June 5, 1926 – March 20, 2018) was an American investment banker who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972, to February 1, 1973, under the Richard Nixon administration. Peterson was also chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984, he was chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter G. Peterson has received more than 681,822 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter G. Peterson is the 16,420th most popular politician (down from 15,194th in 2019), the 9,789th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,365th in 2019) and the 635th most popular American Politician.

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  • 680k

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  • 51.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Peter G. Peterson ranks 16,420 out of 19,576. Before him are Antonella Mularoni, Mackenzie Bowell, Leonard Wood, Wael Nader al-Halqi, Reneta Indzhova, and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. After him are Panagiotis Pavlidis, Pinarayi Vijayan, Aleqa Hammond, Gus Dillon, Ödön Gróf, and Magne Thomassen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Peter G. Peterson ranks 459. Before him are Randy Weston, Noemí Simonetto de Portela, Joan Lorring, Franco Faggi, József Kovács, and Roberto Lippi. After him are Zakaria Chihab, Thomas Starzl, Piero Drogo, Jimmy Heath, Anatoly Logunov, and Maria Janion. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter G. Peterson ranks 455. Before him are Anatoly Lein, Nicanor de Carvalho, Ed King, Muhibbe Darga, Mort Walker, and Asma Jahangir. After him are Emiliano Mondonico, Soslan Andiyev, XXXTentacion, Walter Bahr, Bud Luckey, and Paolo Ferrari.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter G. Peterson ranks 9,789 out of 20,380. Before him are Victor Schertzinger (1888), Red Mitchell (1927), Chris Fehn (1973), Leonard Wood (1860), Carmen Luvana (1981), and Melvin Frank (1913). After him are Dorothy Poynton-Hill (1915), Harvey Mason (1947), Arthur Laurents (1917), J. Alden Weir (1852), Jim Montgomery (1955), and Janet Hubert (1956).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Peter G. Peterson ranks 635. Before him are Pete Wilson (1933), Nicholas Katzenbach (1922), Thomas F. Bayard (1828), George Washington Goethals (1858), Edward James Roye (1815), and Leonard Wood (1860). After him are John Kasich (1952), Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835), Spark Matsunaga (1916), Alexander Acosta (1969), Richard Rush (1780), and Elihu B. Washburne (1816).

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