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Amelia Bloomer

1818 - 1894

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Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy. In her work with The Lily, she became the first woman to own, operate and edit a newspaper for women. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amelia Bloomer is the 289th most popular social activist (up from 310th in 2019), the 3,676th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,509th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Amelia Bloomer ranks 289 out of 840. Before her are Ryszard Siwiec, Li Hongzhi, Aruna Shanbaug case, Simon bar Giora, George Lincoln Rockwell, and Hannie Schaft. After her are Rattanbai Jinnah, Abdallah ibn Yasin, Gustave Moynier, Zhang Guotao, Mary Dyer, and Policarpa Salavarrieta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Amelia Bloomer ranks 53. Before her are Marco Minghetti, Heinrich Kiepert, P. G. T. Beauregard, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Gustave Aimard, and Antonio Bazzini. After her are Mary Elizabeth Barber, Petar Preradović, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Louis Buffet, and Aasmund Olavsson Vinje. Among people deceased in 1894, Amelia Bloomer ranks 35. Before her are Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Guillaume Lekeu, Christina Rossetti, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, Sante Geronimo Caserio, and Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia. After her are Philipp Spitta, Władysław Czartoryski, Heinrich Hoffmann, Theophan the Recluse, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Pavel Yablochkov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amelia Bloomer ranks 3,676 out of 20,380. Before her are Emmylou Harris (1947), Frank Welker (1946), Bill Walker (1951), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Gilbert Stuart (1755), and Albert Ghiorso (1915). After her are Edith Head (1897), Neil Simon (1927), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), George Segal (1934), Howard Zinn (1922), and Martha Chase (1927).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Amelia Bloomer ranks 36. Before her are Gloria Steinem (1934), Edward Snowden (1983), Emmett Till (1941), Coretta Scott King (1927), Edna Parker (1893), and George Lincoln Rockwell (1918). After her are Louise Bryant (1885), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Jesse Jackson (1941), Lucretia Mott (1793), Clara Barton (1821), and Russell Means (1939).

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