POLITICIAN

Sam Houston

1793 - 1863

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Samuel Houston ( , HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Houston has received more than 5,500,534 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Sam Houston is the 5,819th most popular politician (up from 6,001st in 2019), the 1,866th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,044th in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sam Houston ranks 5,819 out of 19,576. Before him are Thomas Boni Yayi, Leopold Berchtold, Theroigne de Mericourt, Rifaat al-Assad, Petr Fiala, and Alexandros Mavrokordatos. After him are Behgjet Pacolli, Aurelius of Asturias, Koča Popović, Chintila, Alparslan Türkeş, and Berthold, Duke of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Sam Houston ranks 14. Before him are Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Michel Chasles, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Constantine Kanaris, James Dunlop, and Karl Lachmann. After him are Radama I, Charles Paul de Kock, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Philipp Veit, Thomas Addison, and Princess Caroline of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1863, Sam Houston ranks 14. Before him are Franz Xaver Gruber, Solomon Northup, Jakob Steiner, Stonewall Jackson, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Christian Friedrich Hebbel. After him are Natalia Pushkina, Auguste Bravais, Radama II, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Dost Mohammad Khan, and Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Houston ranks 1,866 out of 20,380. Before him are Kathryn Joosten (1939), Chris Evert (1954), Fred Durst (1970), Arthur Danto (1924), Andy Kaufman (1949), and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (1966). After him are Karen Carpenter (1950), Stacy Keach (1941), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Megan Fox (1986), Ben Carson (1951), and Robert Ryan (1909).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Sam Houston ranks 126. Before him are Hiram Bingham III (1875), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Clement Greenberg (1909), Spiro Agnew (1918), William Walker (1824), and Paul Wolfowitz (1943). After him are Ben Carson (1951), Ron Paul (1935), Cyrus Vance (1917), Jim Garrison (1921), Henry A. Wallace (1888), and Avery Brundage (1887).

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