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Robert M. T. Hunter

1809 - 1887

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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician and planter. He was a U.S. representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. senator (1847–1861). During the American Civil War, Hunter became the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate senator (1862–1865) and critic of President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Hunter failed to win re-election to the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert M. T. Hunter has received more than 225,608 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Robert M. T. Hunter is the 16,144th most popular politician (down from 14,523rd in 2019), the 11,644th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,962nd in 2019) and the 774th most popular American Politician.

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  • 16

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  • 3.24

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert M. T. Hunter ranks 16,144 out of 15,577. Before him are Andrei Arlovski, Henry M. Jackson, Janusz Wójcik, George Stoneman, Roberta Pinotti, and Estanislau da Silva. After him are Mário Centeno, Věra Růžičková, Martin Sonneborn, Reggie Pridmore, Jutta Urpilainen, and Martín Vázquez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Robert M. T. Hunter ranks 67. Before him are Svend Foyn, Juan Antonio Pezet, Ștefan Golescu, George Engelmann, Sterling Price, and Francis Walker.  Among people deceased in 1887, Robert M. T. Hunter ranks 55. Before him are George Alexander Macfarren, Sarah Yorke Jackson, José Rufino Echenique, August W. Eichler, Dorothea Dix, and Elihu B. Washburne. After him are Daniel Manning and Dinah Craik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert M. T. Hunter ranks 11,644 out of 18,182. Before him are Bernie Worrell (1944), Chord Overstreet (1989), Alicia Coppola (1968), Walter Bahr (1927), Kari Wuhrer (1967), and Amory Lovins (1947). After him are Jay Chamberlain (1925), Omar Benson Miller (1978), Gary Rydstrom (1959), Robert Bork (1927), Isabelle Fuhrman (1997), and William O. Douglas (1898).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Robert M. T. Hunter ranks 774. Before him are John Canfield Spencer (1788), William Gibbs McAdoo (1863), Trent Lott (1941), Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900), Henry M. Jackson (1912), and George Stoneman (1822). After him are John Conyers (1929), J. Donald Cameron (1833), Amy Coney Barrett (1972), Chris Dodd (1944), John J. Crittenden (1787), and Amy Klobuchar (1960).

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