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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 719,501 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Stand Watie is the 200th most popular extremist (down from 165th in 2019), the 5,244th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,144th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Extremist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Stand Watie ranks 200 out of 283. Before him are Mohamed Atta, Richard Speck, Stanley Williams, Ross Ulbricht, Mary Surratt, and Charles Starkweather. After him are Ronald DeFeo Jr., Frank James, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Irmgard Möller, Abdullah Çatlı, and Herbert Mullin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Stand Watie ranks 40. Before him are Teodolfo Mertel, Jovan Sterija Popović, Gaetano Bedini, Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, Julius Weisbach, and Friedrich Welwitsch. After him are Fabre Geffrard, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Georg Adolf Erman, Michele Amari, Ivan Kireyevsky, and Julius Hübner. Among people deceased in 1871, Stand Watie ranks 50. Before him are Julius Weisbach, Louis Charles Delescluze, Édouard Lartet, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Mariano Melgarejo, and Kuriakose Elias Chavara. After him are İbrahim Şinasi, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Alexander Serov, Castro Alves, Robert Chambers, and Paul Kane.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stand Watie ranks 5,244 out of 20,380. Before him are Dexter Jackson (1969), Dee Snider (1955), Charles Demuth (1883), Robert Keohane (1941), Richard Sheldon (1878), and Melissa Mathison (1950). After him are Lloyd Alexander (1924), Louis Jordan (1908), Wes Unseld (1946), Rosalind E. Krauss (1941), Jack Kramer (1921), and Mark Rolston (1956).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Stand Watie ranks 65. Before him are John Wesley Hardin (1853), Richard Speck (1941), Stanley Williams (1953), Ross Ulbricht (1984), Mary Surratt (1823), and Charles Starkweather (1938). After him are Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951), Frank James (1843), Herbert Mullin (1947), Axeman of New Orleans (null), Christopher Scarver (1969), and William Bonin (1947).

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