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Walter Q. Gresham

1832 - 1895

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Walter Quintin Gresham (March 17, 1832 – May 28, 1895) was an American attorney, jurist, statesman, and politician who served in the cabinets of presidents Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland. Gresham was the 31st postmaster general of the United States under Arthur from 1883 to 1884 and briefly the 35th U.S. secretary of the treasury from September to October 1884 before resigning to become a federal judge. He was twice a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. president in 1884 and 1888 before leaving the party to support Cleveland in the 1892 election. He joined Cleveland's second cabinet as the 33rd U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Q. Gresham has received more than 144,030 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Walter Q. Gresham is the 31st most popular judge (up from 33rd in 2019), the 10,092nd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,159th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Judge.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JUDGES

Among judges, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 31 out of 53. Before him are Warren E. Burger, Anna Chandy, John Paul Stevens, Vassilios Skouris, Carlo Biotti, and Richard Goldstone. After him are Peter Tomka, Harlan F. Stone, Brett Kavanaugh, David Souter, Leila Seth, and Elliott Belgrave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 100. Before him are Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg, Isaac Israel Hayes, Juris Alunāns, Henry Seebohm, Lizardo Montero Flores, and José Ruperto Monagas. After him are Rebecca Solomon, John Brown Gordon, Samuel Colman, Louise Rayner, and Herbert Vaughan. Among people deceased in 1895, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 86. Before him are Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Ludwig Schläfli, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Charles Frédéric Girard, and Henry Seebohm. After him are Richard Morris Hunt, Lady Charlotte Guest, Peter Hardeman Burnett, Calvert Vaux, Hugh McCulloch, and Emily Faithfull.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 10,092 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Grimes (1935), Junior Durkin (1915), Charles Kieffer (1910), Margaret Livingston (1895), Jenna Elfman (1971), and Gracie Allen (1895). After him are Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807), Lisa Cholodenko (1964), Jesse Williams (1981), Giuseppe Rossi (1987), Lee Archambault (1960), and John Delaney (1963).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 15. Before him are Stephen Breyer (1938), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), Anthony Kennedy (1936), Warren E. Burger (1907), and John Paul Stevens (1920). After him are Harlan F. Stone (1872), Brett Kavanaugh (1965), David Souter (1939), Elena Kagan (1960), Samuel Chase (1741), and Ketanji Brown Jackson (1970).

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