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Porter Goss

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Porter Johnston Goss (; born November 26, 1938) is an American politician who served as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006. He was the last Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 2004 to 2005, then became the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which abolished the DCI position and replaced it with the Director of National Intelligence on December 17, 2004 Before taking over the CIA, Goss was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 14th congressional district from 1989 to 2004. His district, numbered as the 13th District from 1989 to 1993, included Fort Myers, Naples and part of Port Charlotte. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Porter Goss has received more than 577,706 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Porter Goss is the 16,191st most popular politician (down from 15,035th in 2019), the 9,327th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,006th in 2019) and the 599th most popular American Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Porter Goss ranks 16,191 out of 19,576. Before him are Kinga Göncz, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Bernd Mayländer, Michael Pedersen Friis, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, and Marie-Louise Lachapelle. After him are Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, Lopo do Nascimento, William H. Webster, Erwin Huber, Jim Ross, and Tunne Kelam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Porter Goss ranks 498. Before him are Ann Jones, Judy Blume, József Gelei, Eleanor Bron, António Calvário, and Carlos Contreras. After him are Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Geoff Murphy, Jorge Manicera, Hampton Fancher, Giuseppe Merisi, and Galina Gorokhova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Porter Goss ranks 9,327 out of 20,380. Before him are Una Merkel (1903), Elizabeth Ryan (1892), Rosemary Casals (1948), Jonathan Kellerman (1949), Brett Ratner (1969), and Alan Jay Lerner (1918). After him are Conyers Herring (1914), Ed Gordon (1908), Brian Tyler (1972), Robert Pastorelli (1954), William H. Webster (1924), and Kenneth Marshall (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Porter Goss ranks 599. Before him are Mary Arthur McElroy (1841), Hiram Johnson (1866), James M. Cox (1870), Hugo Black (1886), Fred M. Vinson (1890), and Terry Branstad (1946). After him are William H. Webster (1924), Jim Ross (1952), Gary Hart (1936), James Skivring Smith (1825), Frank Murkowski (1933), and Michael Flynn (1958).

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