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Stand Watie

1806 - 1871

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Brigadier-General Stand Watie (Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏔᎦ, romanized: Degataga, lit. 'Stand firm'; December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871), also known as Standhope Uwatie and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1862 to 1866. The Cherokee Nation allied with the Confederate States during the American Civil War, and he was subsequently the only Native American Confederate general officer. Watie commanded Indian forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, made up mostly of Cherokee, Muskogee, and Seminole. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stand Watie has received more than 677,527 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Stand Watie is the 165th most popular extremist (down from 136th in 2019), the 4,155th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,517th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Stand Watie ranks 165 out of 209Before him are Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Jan-Carl Raspe, Ibn al-Khattab, Nancy Spungen, and John List. After him are Joseph Kony, Viktor Bout, Mary Surratt, Charles Starkweather, Luis Posada Carriles, and Yigal Amir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Stand Watie ranks 35Before him are Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Giacomo Antonelli, Michel Chevalier, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, and Teodolfo Mertel. After him are Friedrich Welwitsch, Georg Adolf Erman, Michele Amari, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Gaetano Bedini, and Ivan Kireyevsky. Among people deceased in 1871, Stand Watie ranks 32Before him are François-Joseph Fétis, Henry E. Steinway, Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Roderick Murchison, and Henri Regnault. After him are Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, August Immanuel Bekker, Peter von Hess, Alexander Serov, Robert Chambers, and Jeanne Villepreux-Power.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stand Watie ranks 4,155 out of 18,182Before him are Ciara (1985), Lee Konitz (1927), Tony Hawk (1968), Yusef Lateef (1920), Cathy O'Donnell (1923), and Andrew Robinson (1942). After him are Olive Thomas (1894), Kevin Smith (1970), Joss Whedon (1964), Pernell Roberts (1928), Benny Carter (1907), and Chris Penn (1965).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Stand Watie ranks 59Before him are Samuel Little (1940), Stephen Paddock (1953), Robert Ford (1862), John Wesley Hardin (1853), Nancy Spungen (1958), and John List (1925). After him are Mary Surratt (1823), Charles Starkweather (1938), Stanley Williams (1953), Frank James (1843), Herbert Mullin (1947), and Robert Berdella (1949).