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Richard Henry Dana Jr.

1815 - 1882

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Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War in the Prize Cases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Henry Dana Jr. has received more than 234,127 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richard Henry Dana Jr. is the 6,385th most popular writer (down from 5,781st in 2019), the 11,721st most popular biography from United States (down from 10,902nd in 2019) and the 861st most popular American Writer.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 6,385 out of 7,302. Before him are Sylvia Browne, H. R. F. Keating, Anderson Cooper, George S. Kaufman, Waleed Al-Husseini, and Raúl Rivero. After him are Steve Sem-Sandberg, Linda Woolverton, Graciano Rocchigiani, Raif Badawi, Alfred Austin, and Sonja Åkesson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 86. Before him are Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Edward James Roye, Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, Howell Cobb, William J. Hardee, and James Seddon. After him are Andrew Jackson Downing, Hablot Knight Browne, James W. Nye, and Alexander Ramsey. Among people deceased in 1882, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 76. Before him are James Challis, William Shanks, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, Nain Singh, and Thomas Romney Robinson. After him are Hablot Knight Browne, Francis Maitland Balfour, John Scott Russell, Edward Bouverie Pusey, and Milton Latham.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 11,721 out of 20,380. Before him are Adrienne King (1960), Kitty O'Neil (1946), Harry Gallatin (1927), James Neill (1860), Diana Scarwid (1955), and Raekwon (1970). After him are Ruben Fleischer (1974), Gene Fullmer (1931), Harold L. Ickes (1874), Andrew Stevens (1955), John Kirby (1963), and Jacqueline Obradors (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 861. Before him are Joel Osteen (1963), Richard Price (1949), Jodi Picoult (1966), Sylvia Browne (1936), Anderson Cooper (1967), and George S. Kaufman (1889). After him are Linda Woolverton (1952), Joe Paterno (1926), Leslie Feinberg (1949), Jennifer Egan (1962), James Patrick Kelly (1951), and Janet Evanovich (1943).

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