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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Smedley Butler

1881 - 1940

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Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed the Maverick Marine, was a senior United States Marine Corps officer. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Banana Wars. At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Smedley Butler has received more than 3,485,872 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Smedley Butler is the 1,461st most popular military personnel (down from 1,332nd in 2019), the 5,823rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,998th in 2019) and the 101st most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Smedley Butler ranks 1,461 out of 1,468Before him are Juan Aldama, George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, Sigizmund Levanevsky, Neil Ritchie, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, and Eugene Sledge. After him are Fritz Julius Kuhn, Władysław Raginis, Guo Boxiong, Esmail Ghaani, Robert Anderson, and J. D. Tippit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Smedley Butler ranks 139Before him are Aleksandr Gerasimov, Arkady Averchenko, Louis Bastien, Eugen Bolz, Jérôme Carcopino, and Edgar Leonard. After him are Harry Edwin Wood, Jess Willard, Otto Toeplitz, Fernand Sanz, Mordecai Kaplan, and Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet. Among people deceased in 1940, Smedley Butler ranks 130Before him are Piero Toscani, Einar Benediktsson, Karimeh Abbud, Ljubomir Davidović, Charley Chase, and Agnes Ayres. After him are Mato Kósyk, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Albert Richter, Otto Toeplitz, Heinrich Kayser, and Nikola Ivanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Smedley Butler ranks 5,823 out of 18,182Before him are Bill Nye (1955), William Christie (1944), Kelly LeBrock (1960), Theodore Gill (1837), Michael Dell (1965), and Larry Van Kriedt (1954). After him are Henry Russell (1904), John Diehl (1950), Mary J. Blige (1971), Frank Schlesinger (1871), Rod Serling (1924), and William Shepherd (1949).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Smedley Butler ranks 101Before him are Lewis Powell (1844), Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883), Richard S. Ewell (1817), William Guarnere (1923), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), and Eugene Sledge (1923). After him are Robert Anderson (1805), J. D. Tippit (1924), Mark Milley (1958), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), John Bell Hood (1831), and Richard Bong (1920).