POLITICIAN

William B. Travis

1809 - 1836

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Lieutenant-Colonel William Barret "Buck" Travis (August 1, 1809 – March 6, 1836) was a Texian Army officer and lawyer. He is known for helping set the Texas Revolution in motion during the Anahuac disturbances and defending the Alamo Mission during the battle of the Alamo. During the Mexican siege of the Alamo, Travis wrote a letter pleading for reinforcements that became known as the "Victory or Death" letter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William B. Travis has received more than 1,491,124 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. William B. Travis is the 12,237th most popular politician (up from 12,559th in 2019), the 4,700th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,510th in 2019) and the 305th most popular American Politician.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William B. Travis ranks 12,237 out of 19,576. Before him are Nicolò Sagredo, Titus Herminius Aquilinus, Al-Harith ibn Jabalah, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, and Gualberto Villarroel. After him are Karl Arnold, Mahmud Tarzi, Kim Campbell, Shu-turul, Khalid Bakdash, and Charles Duclerc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, William B. Travis ranks 46. Before him are Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Kit Carson, Constantin von Alvensleben, Matsumura Sōkon, Robert Cornelius, and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn. After him are Cyrus McCormick, Oswald Heer, Louis Charles Delescluze, Rutherford Alcock, Manuel Montt, and Johann Heinrich Blasius. Among people deceased in 1836, William B. Travis ranks 39. Before him are Orest Kiprensky, Heinrich Schrader, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Ferdinand Raimund, and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland. After him are Edward Turner Bennett, Miguel Barragán, William Elford Leach, Stephen F. Austin, Adolf Stieler, and Marc-Antoine Parseval.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William B. Travis ranks 4,700 out of 20,380. Before him are Adlai Stevenson I (1835), Ram Dass (1931), Sanford Meisner (1905), Louise Brough (1923), Glenn Curtiss (1878), and Adam Driver (1983). After him are Barry Corbin (1940), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), Barney Kessel (1923), Dimebag Darrell (1966), Bob Rafelson (1933), and Helen Churchill Candee (1858).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, William B. Travis ranks 305. Before him are Julia Grant (1826), Beau Biden (1969), Rick Perry (1950), Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Michael Kors (1959), and Adlai Stevenson I (1835). After him are Frances Cleveland (1864), Susanna M. Salter (1860), Kay Ivey (1944), William Perry (1927), Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), and Sargent Shriver (1915).

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