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Richard Olney

1835 - 1917

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Richard Olney (September 15, 1835 – April 8, 1917) was an American attorney, statesman, and Democratic Party politician who served as a member of the second cabinet of President Grover Cleveland as the 40th United States Attorney General from 1893 to 1895 and 34th Secretary of State from 1895 to 1897. As attorney general, Olney used injunctions against striking workers in the Pullman strike, setting a precedent, and advised the use of federal troops, when legal means failed to control the strikers. As Secretary of State, Olney mediated the Venezuelan crisis of 1895 and managed Cleveland's anti-expansionist policy in response to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Cuban War of Independence, though both Hawaii and Cuba were annexed during the subsequent William McKinley administration. He raised the status of America in the world by elevating U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Olney has received more than 151,720 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Richard Olney is the 15,690th most popular politician (down from 14,998th in 2019), the 8,435th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,932nd in 2019) and the 535th most popular American Politician.

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  • 150k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

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  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Olney ranks 15,690 out of 19,576. Before him are Guillermo Tell Villegas, Apisai Ielemia, Théoneste Bagosora, Han Pil-hwa, George Pataki, and Stefanie Clausen. After him are Bernhard Vogel, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Chang Sang, Ahn Cheol-soo, Ruth First, and Fergus Mór.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Richard Olney ranks 83. Before him are Archibald Geikie, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Richard Andree, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, and Kirkpatrick Macmillan. After him are A. V. Dicey, William Stanley Haseltine, Vítězslav Hálek, Lyman Abbott, Rebecca Latimer Felton, and John La Farge. Among people deceased in 1917, Richard Olney ranks 111. Before him are Giuseppe Veronese, Albert Ball, Viktor Madarász, Andrew Murray, Carlo Oriani, and Charles Horton Peck. After him are Leander Starr Jameson, Jules Vandenpeereboom, Chrétien Waydelich, Mary Arthur McElroy, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Tom Thomson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Olney ranks 8,435 out of 20,380. Before him are William Alston (1921), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Justin Bartha (1978), Mayo Methot (1904), George Pataki (1945), and Ken Leung (1970). After him are Walter Alvarez (1940), Ricky Jay (1946), Susan Peters (1921), Jeannie Berlin (1949), Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886), and Suzy Parker (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Richard Olney ranks 535. Before him are George Bancroft (1800), Clare Boothe Luce (1903), Jesse Helms (1921), Thomas Watson Jr. (1914), Marco Rubio (1971), and George Pataki (1945). After him are Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886), William Bradford (1755), Kari Lake (1969), Corine Mauch (1960), Melvin Laird (1922), and Robert J. Walker (1801).

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