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R. B. Bennett

1870 - 1947

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Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935. Bennett was born in Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick, and grew up nearby in Hopewell Cape. He studied law at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1893, and in 1897 moved to Calgary to establish a law firm in partnership with James Lougheed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. B. Bennett has received more than 619,013 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). R. B. Bennett is the 14,453rd most popular politician (down from 13,294th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Canada (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Canadian Politician.

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  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, R. B. Bennett ranks 14,453 out of 19,576. Before him are Georges Pitoëff, Ellen Gleditsch, Servius Sulpicius Galba, George Sheldon, Patty Murray, and Johan Ramstedt. After him are Portia Simpson-Miller, Georges Lacombe, Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Ruslan Aushev, Luc Frieden, and José Rondeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, R. B. Bennett ranks 127. Before him are Antonius van den Broek, Yi Jun-yong, Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Verner Järvinen, John Isaac Briquet, and Julián Besteiro. After him are Ivan Perestiani, Bautista Saavedra, Nino Martoglio, Frank Norris, Victor Borisov-Musatov, and John Marin. Among people deceased in 1947, R. B. Bennett ranks 162. Before him are Dewi Sartika, Walter Kaufmann, Olive Borden, Gilbert Bougnol, Pedro Ochoa, and Anna von Mildenburg. After him are Georg Schnéevoigt, Frederick Russell Burnham, José Pardo y Barreda, Albert Bruce Jackson, Ossi Oswalda, and Edwin Hedley.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, R. B. Bennett ranks 354 out of 1,622. Before him are Harry Saltzman (1915), Donal Logue (1966), Hal Foster (1892), Bernie Shaw (1956), Tommy Burns (1881), and A. J. Cook (1978). After him are Edward Belcher (1799), Howie Mandel (1955), Duncan McNaughton (1910), Guy Lafleur (1951), Richard Williams (1933), and Heather Menzies (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Canada

Among politicians born in Canada, R. B. Bennett ranks 28. Before him are John Diefenbaker (1895), Robert Borden (1854), Michael Ignatieff (1947), John Abbott (1821), Arthur Meighen (1874), and Tommy Burns (1881). After him are Julie Payette (1963), Jacques Parizeau (1930), Ted Cruz (1970), Patricia Jones (1930), Brock Chisholm (1896), and Nancy Greene Raine (1943).

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