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Joseph E. Johnston

1807 - 1891

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Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 – March 21, 1891) was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) and the Seminole Wars. After Virginia declared secession from the United States, he entered the Confederate States Army as one of its most senior general officers during the American Civil War. From 1888 to 1889 he was a vice president, from 1889 to 1890 president, of the Aztec Club of 1847. Johnston was trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in the same class as Robert E. Lee. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph E. Johnston is the 886th most popular military personnel (down from 773rd in 2019), the 3,024th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,263rd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 886 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Lennart Oesch, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Yekaterina Budanova, Marco Antonio Bragadin, Ian Hamilton, and Winrich von Kniprode. After him are François Étienne de Kellermann, Quintus Titurius Sabinus, Ernst Barkmann, Henri Winkelman, Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, and Hermann Ehrhardt.

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Among people born in 1807, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 21. Before him are Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Alfred Vail, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Hermann Burmeister, and Aloysius Bertrand. After him are Amir Kabir, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Napoleon Orda, Anna Russell, and Adrien-François Servais. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 45. Before him are Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Fredrik Pacius, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, and Mihail Kogălniceanu. After him are Hannibal Hamlin, José Manuel Balmaceda, Aleksander Chodźko, Leon Pinsker, Friedrich von Schmidt, and Amalia Lindegren.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 3,024 out of 20,380. Before him are Pauley Perrette (1969), June Allyson (1917), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), Carl Sandburg (1878), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), and Betty Grable (1916). After him are Dennis Wilson (1944), Philip Abelson (1913), Ken Kercheval (1935), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Fess Parker (1924), and Xander Berkeley (1955).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Joseph E. Johnston ranks 52. Before him are John Sullivan (1740), Paul Revere (1735), Doc Holliday (1851), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), and Joseph Dunford (1955). After him are Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Joseph Stilwell (1883), George B. McClellan (1826), James Bowie (1796), Matthew Ridgway (1895), and Frank Serpico (1936).

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