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Arvid Posse

1820 - 1901

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Count Arvid Rutger Fredriksson Posse (15 February 1820 – 24 April 1901) was a Swedish statesman and estate owner who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1880 to 1883. A leading figure in the Lantmanna Party, he initially represented Swedish nobility in the Riksdag of the Estates from 1856 to 1866, and later served in both chambers of the bicameral Riksdag from 1867 to 1890. Remembered as a moderate reformer, he played a key role in consolidating Sweden’s emerging parliamentary government. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2024). Arvid Posse is the 10,683rd most popular politician (up from 11,625th in 2024), the 438th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 483rd in 2019) and the 107th most popular Swedish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arvid Posse ranks 10,682 out of 19,576. Before him are Erishum I, Momir Bulatović, Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, and Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas. After him are Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Qu Qiubai, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Ralpacan, King Yi of Zhou, and Vakhtang II of Georgia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Arvid Posse ranks 38. Before him are Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Afanasy Fet, Alexander Cartwright, Anna Sewell, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, and Reinhart Dozy. After him are Georg Curtius, Maria Severa Onofriana, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Thuwaini bin Said, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, and Gustave Le Gray. Among people deceased in 1901, Arvid Posse ranks 46. Before him are Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Auguste Serrurier, Dagny Juel, Johannes Schmidt, Alexander Kovalevsky, and Henri Helle. After him are Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, Francesc Pi i Margall, John Kemp Starley, and Edmond Audran.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Arvid Posse ranks 438 out of 1,879. Before him are Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), William Chambers (1723), Greta Thunberg (2003), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), Erik Gustaf Boström (1842), and Klas Lestander (1931). After him are Knut Nordahl (1920), Carola Häggkvist (1966), Ebba Brahe (1596), Alexander Skarsgård (1976), Björn Nordqvist (1942), and Princess Sophia of Sweden (1547).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sweden

Among politicians born in Sweden, Arvid Posse ranks 107. Before him are Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1753), Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1629), Staffan de Mistura (1947), Ola Ullsten (1931), Björn at Haugi (832), and Erik Gustaf Boström (1842). After him are Robert Themptander (1844), Margot Wallström (1954), Nils Edén (1871), Carl Gustaf Ekman (1872), Carl Swartz (1858), and Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883).

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