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Joel Roberts Poinsett

1779 - 1851

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Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779 – December 12, 1851) was an American physician, botanist, politician, and diplomat. He was the first U.S. agent in South America, a member of the South Carolina Legislature, and later a United States Representative from 1821 to 1825. In 1825, he was appointed by John Quincy Adams as the first United States Minister to Mexico, replacing James Wilkinson, and serving through the first year of Andrew Jackson's administration in 1829. He represented the United States government to the First Mexican Empire, the Provisional Government, and the First Mexican Republic in Mexico City. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joel Roberts Poinsett is the 628th most popular physician (down from 592nd in 2019), the 8,423rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,270th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 628 out of 726. Before him are Paul Möhring, Bernhard Zondek, Halfdan T. Mahler, Anders Tegnell, Jacinto Convit, and Maurice Raynaud. After him are Stuart Kauffman, Didier Raoult, Greene Vardiman Black, Georgi Valkovich, Yevgeniy Chazov, and Lucille Teasdale-Corti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 31. Before him are Francis Scott Key, Johann Schweigger, Louis de Freycinet, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Filippo Paulucci, and Washington Allston. After him are José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Tabitha Babbitt, Peter Mark Roget, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and Zebulon Pike. Among people deceased in 1851, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 47. Before him are Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, William Nicol, Andrés Quintana Roo, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Giovanni Berchet, and Mizuno Tadakuni. After him are Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Sylvester Graham, Baji Rao II, Levi Woodbury, Samuel George Morton, and Joanna Baillie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 8,425 out of 20,380. Before him are Haley Joel Osment (1988), Henry Dearborn (1751), Robert Goulet (1933), Jesse Plemons (1988), Kal Penn (1977), and Michael Badalucco (1954). After him are Stuart Kauffman (1939), Louis Kuehn (1901), Richard Marcinko (1940), Frank O'Hara (1926), Hector Dyer (1910), and Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 72. Before him are Vivien Thomas (1910), William Beaumont (1785), Jeffrey Ullman (1942), Kenneth H. Cooper (1931), Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), and John Jeffries (1745). After him are Stuart Kauffman (1939), Bernard Nathanson (1926), Leila Denmark (1898), William H. Welch (1850), William C. Gorgas (1854), and Walter Reed (1851).

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