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Cotton Mather

1663 - 1728

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Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he preached for the rest of his life. He has been referred to as the "first American Evangelical". A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of New England appointed by King James II. Mather's subsequent involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693, which he defended in the book Wonders of the Invisible World (1693), attracted intense controversy in his own day and has negatively affected his historical reputation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cotton Mather is the 3,751st most popular writer (down from 3,540th in 2019), the 5,421st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,540th in 2019) and the 427th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Cotton Mather ranks 3,751 out of 7,302. Before him are Arator, Mercedes de Acosta, Teresa de Lauretis, Antonio Beccadelli, Maurice Paléologue, and Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth. After him are Vitsentzos Kornaros, Mikheil Javakhishvili, André Aciman, Peter Cheyney, Ella Maillart, and Ryōtarō Shiba.

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Among people born in 1663, Cotton Mather ranks 13. Before him are Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, August Hermann Francke, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Luca Carlevarijs, Agafya Grushetskaya, and Ogata Kenzan. After him are António Manoel de Vilhena, Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama, and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton. Among people deceased in 1728, Cotton Mather ranks 17. Before him are Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Fyodor Apraksin, Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Ogyū Sorai. After him are Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, Davit Bek, and William Sherard.

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Among people born in United States, Cotton Mather ranks 5,421 out of 20,380. Before him are Doyle Brunson (1933), Cecil Taylor (1929), Black Elk (1863), Howard Stern (1954), Courtney Hodges (1887), and Chelsea Field (1957). After him are Charles Jewtraw (1900), Anna Faris (1976), James Longstreet (1821), Gloria Foster (1933), Jack Arnold (1916), and Jim Walton (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Cotton Mather ranks 427. Before him are Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Reginald Rose (1920), Peter Gould (1950), Helen Churchill Candee (1858), Robert W. Chambers (1865), and Mercedes de Acosta (1892). After him are Douglas Preston (1956), Bret Easton Ellis (1964), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Spencer Johnson (1938), Dennis Lehane (1965), and V. C. Andrews (1923).

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