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Andrew Dickson White

1832 - 1918

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Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator who co-founded Cornell University, one of eight Ivy League universities in the United States, and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricula. A politician, he had served as New York state senator and was later appointed as U.S. ambassador to Germany and Russia. He was one of the founders of the conflict thesis, which states that science and religion have historically been in conflict, and tried to prove it over the course of approximately 800 pages in his History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Dickson White is the 3,723rd most popular politician (down from 3,516th in 2019), the 1,346th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,113th in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Politician.

Andrew Dickson White was an American historian and educator. He is most famous for his two-volume "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom" which is a history of the conflict between religion and science.

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Among politicians, Andrew Dickson White ranks 3,723 out of 19,576. Before him are Antipater the Idumaean, Pridi Banomyong, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Raymond of Poitiers, and Leopold VI, Duke of Austria. After him are Fanny Elssler, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Bahram II, Rugila, Moncef Marzouki, and Licinius II.

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Among people born in 1832, Andrew Dickson White ranks 17. Before him are Edward Burnett Tylor, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, William Crookes, Ivan Shishkin, Ármin Vámbéry, and Horatio Alger. After him are George, King of Saxony, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Jules Ferry, Osman Nuri Pasha, and Felice Beato. Among people deceased in 1918, Andrew Dickson White ranks 41. Before him are Hermann Cohen, Lili Boulanger, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Paul von Rennenkampf, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Frank Wedekind. After him are Eusebi Güell, Julius Wellhausen, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Charles-Émile Reynaud, István Tisza, and Ivan Cankar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andrew Dickson White ranks 1,346 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Kurzweil (1948), Usher (1978), John Fante (1909), Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760), William Barr (1950), and Mark Wahlberg (1971). After him are Cormac McCarthy (1933), Jack Kirby (1917), Carl Weathers (1948), Ambrose Bierce (1842), James Cagney (1899), and Dizzy Gillespie (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Andrew Dickson White ranks 126. Before him are Robert A. Taft (1889), Michael Kors (1959), Donald Rumsfeld (1932), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760), and William Barr (1950). After him are Michael Flynn (1958), Dred Scott (1795), Ben Carson (1951), John F. Kelly (1950), Paul Bremer (1941), and Eric Adams (1960).

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