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Charles Sumner

1811 - 1874

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Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery. He chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1861 to 1871, until he lost the position following a dispute with President Ulysses S. Grant over the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo. After breaking with Grant, he joined the Liberal Republican Party, spending his final two years in the Senate alienated from his party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Sumner is the 16,327th most popular politician (down from 16,230th in 2024), the 9,594th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,418th in 2019) and the 726th most popular American Politician.

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Among politicians, Charles Sumner ranks 16,327 out of 19,576. Before him are Johanna Dohnal, Mohamed Brahmi, Justo Figuerola, Gabriel Costa, Yury Chaika, and Marta Lucía Ramírez. After him are Jeanne Sauvé, Edmund Ho, Dahir Riyale Kahin, Volker Bouffier, Frederick Muhlenberg, and Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco.

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Among people born in 1811, Charles Sumner ranks 71. Before him are Hugh Edwin Strickland, Victor Duruy, Henry Liddell, Karl Ludwig Littrow, John William Casilear, and Alfred Domett. After him are Juan Bautista Ceballos, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, George Caleb Bingham, Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona, William Bell Scott, and Thomas C. Jerdon. Among people deceased in 1874, Charles Sumner ranks 55. Before him are Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Charles-Mathias Simons, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Ștefan Golescu, and Vítězslav Hálek. After him are Adolfo Ballivián, Maksymilian Gierymski, and Francis Walker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Sumner ranks 9,594 out of 20,380. Before him are Garth Brooks (1962), Fred Saberhagen (1930), Jay Park (1987), and Walter Reed (1851). After him are Heather Donahue (1974), Peter Schickele (1935), Frederick Muhlenberg (1750), Harold Hackett (1878), Derrick Green (1971), Gary Kurtz (1940), John Cassin (1813), and Rahm Emanuel (1959).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Charles Sumner ranks 726. Before him are George Moscone (1929), Roland Burris (1937), Tipper Gore (1948), Philander C. Knox (1853), Simon Guggenheim (1867), and Harlow Curtice (1893). After him are Frederick Muhlenberg (1750), Rahm Emanuel (1959), Joe Arpaio (1932), Les Aspin (1938), Anthony W. Gardiner (1820), and Adriano Directo Emperado (1926).

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