POLITICIAN

Robert J. Walker

1801 - 1869

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Robert James Walker (July 19, 1801 – November 11, 1869) was an American lawyer, economist and politician. An active member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the U.S. Senate from Mississippi from 1835 until 1845, as Secretary of the Treasury from 1845 to 1849 during the administration of President James K. Polk, and briefly as Territorial Governor of Kansas in 1857. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert J. Walker has received more than 131,563 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Robert J. Walker is the 15,730th most popular politician (up from 15,789th in 2019), the 8,494th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,880th in 2019) and the 541st most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Robert J. Walker has had the most page views in the with 15,335 views, followed by Chinese (1,663), and Arabic (1,368). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (85.52%), Belarusian (83.09%), and Southern Azerbaijani (72.38%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert J. Walker ranks 15,730 out of 19,576. Before him are John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, Spyridon Athanasopoulos, Patrice Trovoada, Fernando Chui, Melvin Laird, and Manuel Basilio Bustamante. After him are Juan Manuel Gálvez, Tim Kaine, Osbald of Northumbria, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Hans Eichel, and Noël Milarew Odingar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Robert J. Walker ranks 79. Before him are Zecharias Frankel, Georgios Koletis, Maria Röhl, Charles Combes, Jules Pierre Rambur, and George Perkins Marsh. After him are Wilhem de Haan, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Athanasios Vouros, and Samuel Gridley Howe. Among people deceased in 1869, Robert J. Walker ranks 60. Before him are Henry Jarvis Raymond, Thomas Hodgskin, José Hilario López, Peter Mark Roget, Diomidis Kyriakos, and Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. After him are Charles Sturt, Michael Sars, John Bell, Mary Ward, Afzal-ud-Daulah, and John Cassin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert J. Walker ranks 8,494 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Hartman (1950), David Benioff (1970), Edmund Kirby Smith (1824), Maura Tierney (1965), Melvin Laird (1922), and Chris Buck (1958). After him are Max Eastman (1883), Paul Drayton (1939), Katee Sackhoff (1980), Tim Kaine (1958), Joseph Dempsey (1875), and American Horse (1840).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Robert J. Walker ranks 541. Before him are Richard Olney (1835), Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886), William Bradford (1755), Kari Lake (1969), Corine Mauch (1960), and Melvin Laird (1922). After him are Tim Kaine (1958), Lloyd Bentsen (1921), Tipper Gore (1948), Barbara Boxer (1940), Lisa Murkowski (1957), and Miriam A. Ferguson (1875).

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