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Carrie Nation

1846 - 1911

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Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to as Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet. She married David Nation in 1874. She was previously known by either her birth name, Carrie Moore and, after her first marriage in 1867, as Carrie Gloyd. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carrie Nation is the 4,947th most popular writer (down from 3,908th in 2019), the 7,504th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,070th in 2019) and the 564th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Carrie Nation ranks 4,947 out of 7,302. Before her are Adolf Brand, Russell Kirk, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Ruth Klüger, and Dagmar Lange. After her are Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Robert Lowell, Aagje Deken, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Sakutarō Hagiwara, and Eugippius.

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Among people born in 1846, Carrie Nation ranks 99. Before her are Karol Olszewski, Zygmunt Noskowski, Svatopluk Čech, Rose Cleveland, László Paál, and Edward S. Holden. After her are Arsène Darmesteter, Pieter Cort van der Linden, Eugen Baumann, Marco Aurelio Soto, Nikolay Umov, and Elizabeth Thompson. Among people deceased in 1911, Carrie Nation ranks 84. Before her are Albert Ladenburg, Dmitry Bogrov, Eugene Burton Ely, Christian Lundeberg, Vassily Maximov, and Carl Folcker. After her are Dezső Bánffy, Marc Delafontaine, Morten Müller, William McGregor, Merritt Giffin, and Sam Dickson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carrie Nation ranks 7,506 out of 20,380. Before her are Louis McLane (1786), Andy Roddick (1982), Russell Kirk (1918), Slim Pickens (1919), Brock Peters (1927), and Willie Steele (1923). After her are Bebe Neuwirth (1958), Robert Lowell (1917), Frederic Remington (1861), Karl Lashley (1890), Shirley Verrett (1931), and Aaron Norris (1951).

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Among writers born in United States, Carrie Nation ranks 564. Before her are Norman Spinrad (1940), William Gibson (1914), Neal Stephenson (1959), John Esposito (1940), Erica Jong (1942), and Russell Kirk (1918). After her are Robert Lowell (1917), Jack Finney (1911), Robert B. Parker (1932), William Dean Howells (1837), John O'Hara (1905), and Isabel Briggs Myers (1897).

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