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Arvid Lindman

1862 - 1936

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Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman (19 September 1862 – 9 December 1936), also known as the Admiral (Swedish: Amiralen), was a Swedish conservative statesman, military officer, and industrialist who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1906 to 1911 and again from 1928 to 1930. He was leader of the General Electoral League from 1912 and represented Stockholm in the Riksdag from 1905 until his retirement in 1935. Regarded as one of the fathers of modern Sweden, he led the passage of universal male suffrage and electoral reform. He was also leader of the Lantmanna and bourgeois Party (Swedish: Lantmanna- och borgarepartiet; a member party of the General Electoral League) from 1913 to 1935, except for a brief period in 1917 when he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Arvid Lindman is the 8,293rd most popular politician (down from 7,604th in 2024), the 317th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 292nd in 2019) and the 88th most popular Swedish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arvid Lindman ranks 8,293 out of 19,576. Before him are Vasile Milea, Neidhart von Reuental, John Brown Gordon, Michael II Komnenos Doukas, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, and Philip of France. After him are Dragan Đokanović, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Menkare, Lucile Desmoulins, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine, and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Arvid Lindman ranks 59. Before him are Cao Kun, Léon Boëllmann, Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Frederick Delius, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, and Edvard Westermarck. After him are Nitobe Inazō, Robert Reid, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, William Wallace Campbell, Friedrich Meinecke, and Vilhelm Bjerknes. Among people deceased in 1936, Arvid Lindman ranks 80. Before him are Irving Thalberg, Alexander Tamanian, Edward Bach, Alexandros Zaimis, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and Charles Curtis. After him are Johannes Franz Hartmann, Takahashi Korekiyo, Conrad Böcker, Hu Hanmin, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Édouard Herzen.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Arvid Lindman ranks 317 out of 1,879. Before him are Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken (1670), Gustav Trolle (1488), Bengt Strömgren (1908), Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870), Eli Heckscher (1879), and Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840). After him are Daniel Solander (1733), Eva Dahlbeck (1920), Bo Widerberg (1930), Erik Dahlbergh (1625), Fredrik Reinfeldt (1965), and Per Wahlöö (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sweden

Among politicians born in Sweden, Arvid Lindman ranks 88. Before him are Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland (1827), Olof Björnsson (950), Magdalena Andersson (1967), Per Brahe the Younger (1602), Johann Patkul (1660), and Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken (1670). After him are Fredrik Reinfeldt (1965), John, Duke of Östergötland (1589), Rogvolod (901), Håkan the Red (1040), Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818), and Svante Nilsson (1460).

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