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Roy Cohn

1927 - 1986

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Roy Marcus Cohn ( KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent political fixer in New York City. He represented and mentored Donald Trump during Trump's early business career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Cohn has received more than 9,088,139 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Roy Cohn is the 61st most popular lawyer (down from 47th in 2019), the 5,413th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,533rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 23

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  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Roy Cohn ranks 61 out of 136. Before her are Jean Domat, Alberico Gentili, Paul Alexander, Hisashi Owada, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Louis Brandeis. After her are René David, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., James B. Donovan, Abdulqawi Yusuf, William Rehnquist, and John Selden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Roy Cohn ranks 254. Before her are Hamed Karoui, Eva Bartok, Piero Tosi, William Daniels, Dezső Gyarmati, and John Warner. After her are Susan Cabot, Peter Dickinson, Mathé Altéry, Martin Špegelj, László Paskai, and Cesar Chavez. Among people deceased in 1986, Roy Cohn ranks 163. Before her are Gaston Defferre, Ernst Haas, Peter Pears, V. C. Andrews, Nils Ramm, and Carlo Biagi. After her are Hank Mobley, Susan Cabot, Thad Jones, Hermione Baddeley, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, and Herma Szabo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roy Cohn ranks 5,413 out of 20,380. Before her are Ajita Wilson (1950), Albert Dekker (1905), Burt Ward (1945), Edie Falco (1963), Ed Koch (1924), and Harry Guardino (1925). After her are Anthony Mackie (1978), James Buchanan Duke (1856), Ian Ziering (1964), Don Schollander (1946), Hank Mobley (1930), and Susan Cabot (1927).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Roy Cohn ranks 10. Before her are Warren Christopher (1925), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Robert Bilott (1965), Paul Alexander (1946), and Louis Brandeis (1856). After her are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), James B. Donovan (1916), William Rehnquist (1924), Wendell Willkie (1892), Lawrence Lessig (1961), and Merrick Garland (1952).

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