POLITICIAN

Shirley Chisholm

1924 - 2005

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Shirley Anita Chisholm ( CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirley Chisholm has received more than 6,221,876 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Shirley Chisholm is the 14,294th most popular politician (down from 13,120th in 2019), the 6,562nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,080th in 2019) and the 422nd most popular American Politician.

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  • 6.2M

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  • 48.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shirley Chisholm ranks 14,294 out of 19,576. Before her are Giovanni Battaglin, Ylli Bufi, David Dinkins, Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani, James G. Blaine, and Emiliano Figueroa. After her are Arechis I of Benevento, Apama II, Ayub Shah Durrani, Anatoliy Serdyukov, Stratonice of Macedon, and Andrej Bajuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Shirley Chisholm ranks 329. Before her are Rudy Van Gelder, Ferdinando Terruzzi, Peter Scholl-Latour, Zahrad, Norbert Schemansky, and David Landes. After her are Phyllis Schlafly, Robert Bolt, Lia van Leer, Gunnar Johansson, César Lattes, and Boris Vasilyev. Among people deceased in 2005, Shirley Chisholm ranks 234. Before her are Eugenia Charles, Giuseppe Caprio, Vladimir Toporov, Natalya Meklin, George Gerbner, and Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas. After her are Klara Luchko, Brock Peters, Ivan Kolev, César Lattes, Ilse Werner, and Eugénio de Andrade.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Chisholm ranks 6,562 out of 20,380. Before her are James LoMenzo (1959), Polly Bergen (1930), David Dinkins (1927), James G. Blaine (1830), Andy Samberg (1978), and Chandra Wilson (1969). After her are George Gervin (1952), Candida Royalle (1950), Julie Bowen (1970), Susanna Thompson (1958), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), and Rory Calhoun (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Shirley Chisholm ranks 422. Before her are John Armstrong Jr. (1758), Timothy Pickering (1745), Abigail Fillmore (1798), Pete Ricketts (1964), David Dinkins (1927), and James G. Blaine (1830). After her are Mario Cuomo (1932), Janet Reno (1938), Galo Plaza (1906), Edward Everett (1794), Ramsey Clark (1927), and Robert Bacon (1860).

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