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William L. Marcy

1786 - 1857

William L. Marcy

William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786 – July 4, 1857) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as U.S. Senator, Governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State. In the latter office, he negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, the last major acquisition of land in the contiguous United States. Born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, Marcy established a legal practice in Troy, New York, after graduating from Brown University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William L. Marcy has received more than 231,043 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. William L. Marcy is the 14,958th most popular politician (down from 12,759th in 2019), the 8,765th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,833rd in 2019) and the 543rd most popular American Politician.

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230k
Page Views (PV)
43.21
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
25
Languages Editions (L)
2.42
Effective Languages (L*)
4.00
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William L. Marcy ranks 14,958 out of 15,577. Before him are Anlamani, Stefanie Clausen, Noureddine Bedoui, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Tibni, and Juan Francisco Giró. After him are Apisai Ielemia, Tatjana Ždanoka, Evripidis Bakirtzis, Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Cherie Blair, and William Z. Foster.

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Anlamani
700 BC - 593 BC
HPI: 43.23
Rank: 14,952
Stefanie Clausen
1900 - 1981
HPI: 43.23
Rank: 14,953
Noureddine Bedoui
1959 - Present
HPI: 43.23
Rank: 14,954
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
1886 - 1944
HPI: 43.22
Rank: 14,955
Tibni
950 BC - Present
HPI: 43.22
Rank: 14,956
Juan Francisco Giró
1791 - 1863
HPI: 43.21
Rank: 14,957
William L. Marcy
1786 - 1857
HPI: 43.21
Rank: 14,958
Apisai Ielemia
1955 - 2018
HPI: 43.21
Rank: 14,959
Tatjana Ždanoka
1950 - Present
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 14,960
Evripidis Bakirtzis
1895 - 1947
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 14,961
Aly Lotfy Mahmoud
1935 - 2018
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 14,962
Cherie Blair
1954 - Present
HPI: 43.19
Rank: 14,963
William Z. Foster
1881 - 1961
HPI: 43.19
Rank: 14,964

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, William L. Marcy ranks 56. Before him are Rudolph Schadow, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Thomas Nuttall, Louis McLane, Nathaniel Wallich, and José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno. After him is Walter Forward. Among people deceased in 1857, William L. Marcy ranks 56. Before him are Karol Kurpiński, Johann Jakob Heckel, Gulab Singh, Louis McLane, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and Elisha Kent Kane. After him are David Thompson and Nasir-ud-Daulah.

Others Born in 1786

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Rudolph Schadow
1786 - 1822
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 50
Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar
1786 - 1845
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 51
Thomas Nuttall
1786 - 1859
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 52
Louis McLane
1786 - 1857
HPI: 44.45
Rank: 53
Nathaniel Wallich
1786 - 1854
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 54
José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno
1786 - 1843
HPI: 43.25
Rank: 55
William L. Marcy
1786 - 1857
HPI: 43.21
Rank: 56
Walter Forward
1786 - 1852
HPI: 37.92
Rank: 57