POLITICIAN

Sonny Perdue

1946 - Today

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George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is an American politician, veterinarian, and businessman who served as the 31st United States secretary of agriculture from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 81st governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011 and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 1991 to 2002. Founder and partner in an agricultural trading company, Perdue was elected governor of Georgia in 2002, defeating incumbent Roy Barnes and becoming the first Republican to hold the office since the Reconstruction era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sonny Perdue has received more than 2,584,677 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Sonny Perdue is the 17,125th most popular politician (down from 15,941st in 2019), the 11,451st most popular biography from United States (down from 11,286th in 2019) and the 757th most popular American Politician.

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  • 2.6M

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  • 41.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sonny Perdue ranks 17,125 out of 19,576. Before him are Solvita Āboltiņa, Mariano Trías, Igor Shuvalov, James Seddon, Teresa Ribera, and Luciana Lamorgese. After him are Einar Arnórsson, Marsha Blackburn, Roberts Zīle, Nicolas Tiangaye, Lamar Alexander, and Mikola Statkevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Sonny Perdue ranks 733. Before him are Humphrey Carpenter, Richard Bauckham, Wiesław Rudkowski, Claudette Werleigh, Dennis Kucinich, and Jeffrey Hammond. After him are Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Ravi Zacharias, Atiku Abubakar, Penelope Spheeris, Tony Ashton, and Tony Hurt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sonny Perdue ranks 11,451 out of 20,380. Before him are Gregory Harrison (1950), John Hencken (1954), Ron Harper (1964), Alan G. Poindexter (1961), Mauri Rose (1906), and James Seddon (1815). After him are Marsha Blackburn (1952), David Silverman (1957), Bob Kulick (1950), Veronica Roth (1988), Bill Prady (1960), and Lamar Alexander (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Sonny Perdue ranks 757. Before him are Rodney Mullen (1966), James Barbour (1775), Liz Cheney (1966), Jonathan Dayton (1760), Dennis Kucinich (1946), and James Seddon (1815). After him are Marsha Blackburn (1952), Lamar Alexander (1940), John B. Anderson (1922), Franklin Farrell (1908), Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (1946), and John Henninger Reagan (1818).

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