POLITICIAN

Samuel J. Tilden

1814 - 1886

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Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election. Tilden was born in 1814 into a wealthy family in New Lebanon, New York. Attracted to politics at a young age, he became a protégé of Martin Van Buren. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel J. Tilden has received more than 1,002,458 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel J. Tilden is the 15,386th most popular politician (down from 14,446th in 2019), the 8,016th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,919th in 2019) and the 508th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 15,386 out of 19,576Before him are Marie-George Buffet, Bob Mathias, Victorino Márquez Bustillos, Jean Kambanda, Timo Soini, and Sumu-Epuh. After him are Juan Ponce Enrile, Ernst Benda, Suhaila Siddiq, Nikolai Stepulov, Jan Sokol, and Raoul Cédras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 66Before him are Felix Lichnowsky, Oskar Kolberg, Nicolaas Beets, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Dimitrios Valvis, and Juan Rafael Mora Porras. After him are Ludwig Schläfli, Jānis Cimze, George-Étienne Cartier, José Posada Herrera, Charles Mackay, and John C. Pemberton. Among people deceased in 1886, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 53Before him are Gustav Fischer, Frederick Guthrie, Tomás Villalba, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Richard Maack, and Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint. After him are Théodore Aubanel, Randolph Caldecott, Henry Hobson Richardson, Charles Francis Adams Sr., Rebecca Solomon, and David Rice Atchison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 8,016 out of 20,380Before him are Joe Roberts (1871), Nancy Kress (1948), John Shea (1949), Bob Mathias (1930), Walter Murch (1943), and Christina Maslach (1946). After him are Laura Leighton (1968), Edwin Starr (1942), Robert Yerkes (1876), A. P. Hill (1825), Lyle Mays (1953), and Robert Ridgway (1850).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 508Before him are Melville Fuller (1833), Wilford Woodruff (1807), David Malpass (1956), Simon Guggenheim (1867), Debbie Rowe (1958), and Bob Mathias (1930). After him are Nelson W. Aldrich (1841), Jeremiah S. Black (1810), Rose Cleveland (1846), William H. Crawford (1772), Thomas Ewing (1789), and Bisher Al-Khasawneh (1969).