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Elihu Yale

1649 - 1721

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Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George, later Madras, and eventually rose to the Presidency of the settlement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elihu Yale is the 11,350th most popular politician (down from 11,036th in 2019), the 4,564th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,006th in 2019) and the 386th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elihu Yale ranks 11,350 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Catherine of Württemberg, Ashur-resh-ishi I, Tigran Sargsyan, Oddbjørn Hagen, Olga Kameneva, and Hugh V, Count of Maine. After him are Eberhard of Franconia, Remismund, Bakili Muluzi, Francis Pym, Li Siyuan, and Pedro Santana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1649, Elihu Yale ranks 13. Before him are Marie Anne Mancini, Thomas Tew, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, and Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Jan Luyken, Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, and Titus Oates. Among people deceased in 1721, Elihu Yale ranks 13. Before him are Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Charles Vane, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Edward Colston, and Pierre Daniel Huet. After him are Zinat-un-Nissa Begum, and James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 4,564 out of 20,380. Before him are Kelly Johnson (1910), George Crumb (1929), Clarence Clemons (1942), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Edward Gorey (1925), and Josephine Hull (1877). After him are Hyman Minsky (1919), Erin Brockovich (1960), AJ McLean (1978), Allen Woodring (1898), Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905), and Robert Bilott (1965).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Elihu Yale ranks 386. Before him are Eddie Lawson (1958), Nick Bollettieri (1931), William P. Rogers (1913), Thomas E. Dewey (1902), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), and Lori Lightfoot (1962). After him are Michael Dukakis (1933), John Henninger Reagan (1818), James Forrestal (1892), Sandra Day O'Connor (1930), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), and Kenneth Arnold (1915).

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