SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dorothea Dix

1802 - 1887

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Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the poor mentally ill. By her vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she helped create the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothea Dix is the 540th most popular social activist (down from 499th in 2019), the 8,333rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,031st in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dorothea Dix ranks 540 out of 840. Before her are Ted Grant, Ivan Betskoy, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Mykola Rudenko, Agnès Callamard, and Aminatou Haidar. After her are Prudencia Ayala, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Lucy Parsons, Ekaterina Karavelova, John Peters Humphrey, and Raisa Aronova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Dorothea Dix ranks 57. Before her are Richard Thomas Lowe, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Charles-Mathias Simons, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Nicholas Wiseman, and Édouard Ménétries. After her are Lydia Maria Child, Manuel María Lombardini, David Octavius Hill, Andrei Stackenschneider, Miguel de San Román, and Gideon Welles. Among people deceased in 1887, Dorothea Dix ranks 55. Before her are Julius von Haast, August Spies, E. Marlitt, Fran Levstik, Peder Balke, and José Rufino Echenique. After her are George Alexander Macfarren, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Semyon Nadson, Alfred Domett, Balfour Stewart, and Albert Parsons.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothea Dix ranks 8,335 out of 20,380. Before her are Timothy B. Schmit (1947), Robert H. Dennard (1932), Carolee Schneemann (1939), Adam Silver (1962), John Eisenhower (1922), and George Tenet (1953). After her are Mike Stern (1953), David Wayne (1914), Catherine Hardy Lavender (1930), Ruth Brown (1928), Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), and Lynn Burke (1943).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dorothea Dix ranks 75. Before her are Medgar Evers (1925), Lucy Stone (1818), Ruby Bridges (1954), Katie Eder (1950), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), and Abraham Flexner (1866). After her are Lucy Parsons (1853), Roger Stone (1952), Jerry Rubin (1938), Fred Hampton (1948), Bill Haywood (1869), and Bayard Rustin (1912).

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