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Winfield Scott

1786 - 1866

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Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as Commanding General of the United States Army from 1841 to 1861, and was a veteran of the War of 1812, American Indian Wars, Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the American Civil War. Scott was the Whig Party's presidential nominee in the 1852 election but was defeated by Democrat Franklin Pierce. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winfield Scott has received more than 2,598,725 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Winfield Scott is the 8,709th most popular politician (down from 8,446th in 2019), the 2,922nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,982nd in 2019) and the 182nd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Winfield Scott ranks 8,709 out of 19,576. Before him are Elias Hrawi, John I, Count of Holland, Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Domitius Alexander, Fujiwara no Fuhito, and Jacques-François Menou. After him are Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Christian Metz, Lucia, Countess of Tripoli, Shō Shin, Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Winfield Scott ranks 25. Before him are Ludwig Börne, François-Édouard Picot, William George Horner, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and Gaspar del Bufalo. After him are Giovanni Battista Amici, Nicolás Bravo, Joachim Lelewel, Justinus Kerner, Marc Seguin, and Agustina de Aragón. Among people deceased in 1866, Winfield Scott ranks 16. Before him are Philipp Franz von Siebold, Adolph Diesterweg, Friedrich Rückert, Paul Gavarni, Thomas Hodgkin, and Rikard Nordraak. After him are Alexander von Nordmann, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, George Ord, Massimo d'Azeglio, Nadezhda Durova, and Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Winfield Scott ranks 2,922 out of 20,380. Before him are Terence McKenna (1946), William Levada (1936), Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Kathy Reichs (1948), William Peter Blatty (1928), and Natalie Cole (1950). After him are Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), George Dewey (1837), Terry Bisson (1942), and Smokey Robinson (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Winfield Scott ranks 182. Before him are Ralph Nader (1934), Edith Roosevelt (1861), Robert H. Jackson (1892), William P. Rogers (1913), Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851), and Michael Dukakis (1933). After him are Elbridge Gerry (1744), Ronald Inglehart (1934), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Elihu Root (1845), Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), and Henry Wilson (1812).

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