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Erik Gustaf Boström

1842 - 1907

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Erik Gustaf Bernhard Boström (11 February 1842 – 21 February 1907), also known as E. G., was a Swedish conservative statesman and landowner who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1891 to 1900 and again from 1902 to 1905. A prominent member of the Lantmanna Party, he represented Stockholm in the Riksdag from 1876 until his death in 1907. With nearly 13 years in office, Boström is the longest-serving Swedish head of government of the 19th century. In 1871, he married Carolina "Lina" Almqvist, with whom he had six daughters and one son. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Erik Gustaf Boström is the 10,653rd most popular politician (up from 11,214th in 2024), the 436th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 451st in 2019) and the 106th most popular Swedish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Erik Gustaf Boström ranks 10,653 out of 19,576. Before him are Cécile La Grenade, Hortensia, Hayır Bey, Pap of Armenia, Arthur Griffith, and Yevgeny Shaposhnikov. After him are Kamehameha V, Tsuda Umeko, Constantine II, King of Armenia, Lev Mekhlis, Shepenupet I, and Pietro Lando.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Erik Gustaf Boström ranks 56. Before him are Maurice Rouvier, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Carl Zeller, Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Arthur Sullivan, and José-Maria de Heredia. After him are Emil Christian Hansen, Eloy Alfaro, Carl Millöcker, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alessandro Fortis, and Stojan Novaković. Among people deceased in 1907, Erik Gustaf Boström ranks 51. Before him are Nicolae Grigorescu, Ludwig Thuille, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Paul Julius Möbius, William, Prince of Wied, and Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Nakayama Yoshiko, Ida Saxton McKinley, Adolf Furtwängler, Zacharie Astruc, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Erik Gustaf Boström ranks 436 out of 1,879. Before him are Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1417), Eugène Jansson (1862), Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), William Chambers (1723), Greta Thunberg (2003), and Frans G. Bengtsson (1894). After him are Klas Lestander (1931), Arvid Posse (1820), Knut Nordahl (1920), Carola Häggkvist (1966), Ebba Brahe (1596), and Alexander Skarsgård (1976).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sweden

Among politicians born in Sweden, Erik Gustaf Boström ranks 106. Before him are Prince August, Duke of Dalarna (1831), Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1753), Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1629), Staffan de Mistura (1947), Ola Ullsten (1931), and Björn at Haugi (832). After him are Arvid Posse (1820), Robert Themptander (1844), Margot Wallström (1954), Nils Edén (1871), Carl Gustaf Ekman (1872), and Carl Swartz (1858).

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