POLITICIAN

William Z. Foster

1881 - 1961

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William Z. Foster (born William Edward Foster; February 25, 1881 – September 1, 1961) was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Z. Foster has received more than 416,952 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Z. Foster is the 16,069th most popular politician (down from 14,912th in 2019), the 9,109th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,765th in 2019) and the 584th most popular American Politician.

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  • 420k

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  • 44.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Z. Foster ranks 16,069 out of 19,576. Before him are Klaus Töpfer, Adriano Directo Emperado, Reem Frainah, Pyotr Demichev, Tomás Monje, and Paul Manafort. After him are Mark Esper, Jamil Hasanli, Andrew Lesnie, Antti Kalliomäki, Justin Lekhanya, and Malcolm MacDonald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, William Z. Foster ranks 211. Before him are John Svanberg, Thomas Lewis, John Dill, James Cecil Parke, Eugène Olivier, and Lou Tellegen. After him are Marion Leonard, Polydore Veirman, Pál Simon, George Finnegan, George Mehnert, and Joel Lehtonen. Among people deceased in 1961, William Z. Foster ranks 183. Before him are Clarence Pinkston, Gustaf Rosenquist, Eddie Polo, Uberto De Morpurgo, Herman Glass, and Francesco Severi. After him are Adela Pankhurst, Richard Gunn, Ferdinand Bie, Max Schöne, Frances Schroth, and Jean de Bie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Z. Foster ranks 9,109 out of 20,380. Before him are Sam Childers (1963), Doc Watson (1923), Scott Brady (1924), Scott Derrickson (1966), Mark Sandrich (1900), and Paul Manafort (1949). After him are Mark Esper (1964), Caleb Landry Jones (1989), Chaz Bono (1969), Joe Bonamassa (1977), Kathryn McGuire (1903), and Loren Acton (1936).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, William Z. Foster ranks 584. Before him are Daniel Akaka (1924), Philip Schuyler (1733), Anthony W. Gardiner (1820), Marcia Fudge (1952), Adriano Directo Emperado (1926), and Paul Manafort (1949). After him are Mark Esper (1964), Philander C. Knox (1853), Gouverneur Morris (1752), Abraham Baldwin (1754), Jeanne Shaheen (1947), and Francis Hopkinson (1737).

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