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Robert Todd Lincoln

1843 - 1926

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Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926) was an American lawyer and businessman. The eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, he was the only one of their four children to survive past the teenage years and also the only to outlive both parents. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company president, and served as both United States Secretary of War (1881–1885) and the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Todd Lincoln has received more than 7,302,594 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Todd Lincoln is the 6,881st most popular politician (down from 6,517th in 2019), the 2,225th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,227th in 2019) and the 149th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Todd Lincoln ranks 6,881 out of 19,576Before him are Jeremy Corbyn, Rajaraja I, Isa Boletini, Ingenuus, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, and Emperor Daowu of Northern Wei. After him are Julio Argentino Roca, Sevar of Bulgaria, André Tardieu, Ptolemy of Aloros, Prince Alexandre of Belgium, and Gallus Anonymus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Robert Todd Lincoln ranks 37Before him are Hans Richter, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Lydia Koidula, Elizabeth Stride, Antonio Labriola, and Shō Tai. After him are Julio Argentino Roca, Eugene de Blaas, Aleksandra Potanina, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Louis Duchesne, and Frederic W. H. Myers. Among people deceased in 1926, Robert Todd Lincoln ranks 41Before him are Émile Coué, Ugyen Wangchuck, Eino Leino, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Théo van Rysselberghe, and Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta. After him are Edwin Abbott Abbott, Nikolay Chkheidze, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Ye Wanyong, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and Annie Oakley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Todd Lincoln ranks 2,225 out of 20,380Before him are Howard Martin Temin (1934), Stockard Channing (1944), Lloyd Shapley (1923), Jonathan Edwards (1703), Glenn Frey (1948), and Fredric March (1897). After him are Carly Simon (1945), Martin Kove (1946), George Floyd (1973), Ray Conniff (1916), Mary Parker Follett (1868), and Albert King (1923).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Robert Todd Lincoln ranks 149Before him are George Wallace (1919), Charles Curtis (1860), Ron Johnson (1955), Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921), Maxwell D. Taylor (1901), and Curtis LeMay (1906). After him are John Conyers (1929), Kamehameha II (1797), Paul P. Harris (1868), Leland Stanford (1824), Jerome Powell (1953), and Bess Truman (1885).