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Benjamin Rush

1745 - 1813

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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress. He later described his efforts in support of the American Revolution, saying: "He aimed well." He served as Surgeon General of the Middle Department of the Continental Army and became a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Rush is the 462nd most popular physician (up from 501st in 2019), the 4,836th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,177th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Benjamin Rush ranks 462 out of 726. Before him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Bénédict Morel, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Wilhelm Fliess, and René Favaloro. After him are Tewhida Ben Sheikh, Friedrich von Esmarch, William Bayliss, Nikolay Gamaleya, William Stukeley, and Kazimierz Bein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Benjamin Rush ranks 36. Before him are Bodawpaya, Johann Peter Frank, Maxim Berezovsky, Franciszek Smuglewicz, Inō Tadataka, and Olaudah Equiano. After him are Johann Gottfried Köhler, Gim Hongdo, François-Jean de la Barre, Johann Peter Salomon, Timothy Pickering, and Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Among people deceased in 1813, Benjamin Rush ranks 34. Before him are Robert Kerr, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Theodor Körner, Jacques Delille, and Maria Caterina Brignole. After him are Edmund Randolph, Sophronius of Vratsa, James Wyatt, Peter Jacob Hjelm, George Clymer, and Zebulon Pike.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Rush ranks 4,836 out of 20,380. Before him are James Rollins (1961), Pat Buchanan (1938), Jacqueline Cochran (1906), John Astin (1930), Henry Murray (1893), and Al Kooper (1944). After him are Lana Rhoades (1996), David Lewis (1941), Blackie Lawless (1956), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), Wanda Jackson (1937), and Isadore Singer (1924).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Benjamin Rush ranks 53. Before him are Jack Kevorkian (1928), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), William Bates (1860), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Crawford Long (1815), and Deborah Birx (1956). After him are Helen B. Taussig (1898), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), William Stewart Halsted (1852), Russell M. Nelson (1924), Alfred Blalock (1899), and George Huntington (1850).

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