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Elisha Kent Kane

1820 - 1857

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Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Africa Squadron. He was assigned as a special envoy to the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and as a surveyor in the United States Coast Survey. He was senior medical officer in the First Grinnell expedition to rescue or discover the fate of the explorer Sir John Franklin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elisha Kent Kane is the 356th most popular explorer (up from 477th in 2019), the 5,820th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,925th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 356 out of 498. Before him are Florence Baker, Alexander Dalrymple, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Pyotr Anjou, Carl Peters, and Humphrey Gilbert. After him are Édouard-Alfred Martel, Matvei Gedenshtrom, Albert von Le Coq, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Edward S. Curtis, and Theodor von Heuglin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 59. Before him are Julia Gardiner Tyler, György Klapka, Juan N. Méndez, Carolina Coronado, Sergey Solovyov, and Anton Josef Gruscha. After him are Nikolay Girs, Mariano Melgarejo, William Howard Russell, Alexander Serov, Andrej Sládkovič, and Gillis Bildt. Among people deceased in 1857, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 52. Before him are Wei Yuan, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Juan Lindo, Johann Schweigger, Abe Masahiro, and Frederick Scott Archer. After him are Johann Georg Hiedler, Stefano Franscini, Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, Karol Kurpiński, Louis McLane, and William L. Marcy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 5,820 out of 20,380. Before him are Mýa (1979), Helen Herron Taft (1861), Holt McCallany (1963), Twiggy Ramirez (1971), Al Lewis (1923), and Michael Malone (1971). After him are Amy Ryan (1969), David Arquette (1971), Clarence Nash (1904), Paul Herman (1946), Odette Annable (1985), and Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Elisha Kent Kane ranks 24. Before him are Jedediah Smith (1799), Charles Wilkes (1798), Jim Bridger (1804), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), John C. Frémont (1813), and Meriwether Lewis (1774). After him are Edward S. Curtis (1868), John Wesley Powell (1834), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), George Kennan (1845), Charles Francis Hall (1821), and Isaac Israel Hayes (1832).

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