SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Samuel Gompers

1850 - 1924

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Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 – December 11, 1924) was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Gompers has received more than 967,667 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Samuel Gompers is the 657th most popular social activist (down from 550th in 2019), the 5,803rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,234th in 2019) and the 44th most popular British Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Samuel Gompers ranks 657 out of 840. Before him are Bram Fischer, Maria Verónica Reina, Mirabehn, Bobby Henderson, María Elena Moyano, and Jacqueline Moudeina. After him are Henrietta Edwards, Anthony Dod Mantle, Derek Chauvin, Fartuun Adan, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Frank Kameny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Samuel Gompers ranks 121. Before him are John Munro Longyear, Constantin Henriquez, Fanny Hesse, Georg Naue, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, and Lawrence Hargrave.  Among people deceased in 1924, Samuel Gompers ranks 132. Before him are Henry Cabot Lodge, Conrad Magnusson, Edwin Montagu, Cecil Sharp, Louise Rayner, and Sabine Baring-Gould. After him is William Robert Ogilvie-Grant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Gompers ranks 5,803 out of 8,785. Before him are John Gribbin (1946), Robin Montgomerie-Charrington (1915), Willie Watson (1920), Selwyn Lloyd (1904), David O'Hara (1965), and Elizabeth Inchbald (1753). After him are John Parr (1952), Craig Bellamy (1979), Steve Clarke (1963), Richard Lovelace (1617), Lee Ryan (1983), and Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Samuel Gompers ranks 44. Before him are Thomas Clarkson (1760), Ingrid Newkirk (1949), Arthur Scargill (1938), James Larkin (1876), Harry Hay (1912), and Mirabehn (1892). After him are Anthony Dod Mantle (1955), Charlotte Despard (1844), Anna Howard Shaw (1847), Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867), Anjem Choudary (1967), and Polly Higgins (1968).

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