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Tecumseh

1768 - 1813

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Tecumseh ( tih-KUM-sə, -⁠see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tecumseh has received more than 3,914,285 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Tecumseh is the 4,839th most popular politician (down from 3,830th in 2019), the 1,632nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,291st in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Politician.

Tecumseh is most famous for being the Shawnee chief who led a confederacy of Native American tribes against the United States in the War of 1812.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tecumseh ranks 4,839 out of 15,577Before him are Emperor Taizong of Liao, Bernard de Tremelay, Emperor Kōnin, Vaišvilkas, Cochise, and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep. After him are Emine Hatun, George III of Georgia, Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, and Qara Yusuf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Tecumseh ranks 14Before him are Karađorđe, Louis Desaix, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Caroline of Brunswick, and Lazare Hoche. After him are Nakşidil Sultan, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Jean-Robert Argand, Peter Wittgenstein, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, and Joseph Anton Koch. Among people deceased in 1813, Tecumseh ranks 13Before him are Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Christoph Martin Wieland, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, and André Grétry. After him are Johann Baptist Wanhal, Giambattista Bodoni, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Géraud Duroc, and George Shaw.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tecumseh ranks 1,632 out of 18,182Before him are Leroy Anderson (1908), Rami Malek (1981), Elisha Gray (1835), Jerry West (1938), Barry Levinson (1942), and Cochise (1805). After him are Kirstie Alley (1951), James Baldwin (1924), Chris Pratt (1979), Evander Holyfield (1962), Paul L. Smith (1936), and Kelly Lynch (1959).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Tecumseh ranks 111Before him are Samuel Adams (1722), George Clinton (1739), Elijah Muhammad (1897), Hiram Bingham III (1875), Walter Mondale (1928), and Cochise (1805). After him are Caroline Kennedy (1957), Cus D'Amato (1908), Mitt Romney (1947), Clement Greenberg (1909), Bess Truman (1885), and Kalākaua (1836).