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Louise Bryant

1885 - 1936

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Louise Bryant (December 5, 1885 – January 6, 1936) was an American feminist, political activist, and journalist best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of November 1917. Born Anna Louise Mohan, she began as a young girl to use the last name of her stepfather, Sheridan Bryant, in preference to that of her father. She grew up in rural Nevada and attended the University of Nevada in Reno and the University of Oregon in Eugene, graduating with a degree in history in 1909. Pursuing a career in journalism, she became society editor of the Spectator and freelanced for The Oregonian, newspapers in Portland, Oregon. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louise Bryant is the 304th most popular social activist (up from 409th in 2019), the 3,881st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,990th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Louise Bryant ranks 304 out of 840Before her are Yuri Levitan, Efua Dorkenoo, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Harilal Gandhi, Catherine Breshkovsky, and Lucio Urtubia. After her are Anna Hazare, Johannes Kleiman, Túpac Katari, Khudiram Bose, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Martin Guerre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Louise Bryant ranks 104Before her are Jerome Kern, Dezső Kosztolányi, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Antonio Bacci, Frank Knight, and Leó Weiner. After her are Dorando Pietri, Alexander Shliapnikov, Josef Frank, Mineichi Koga, Anton Flettner, and John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey. Among people deceased in 1936, Louise Bryant ranks 97Before her are Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Dezső Kosztolányi, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Nahum Sokolow, Josep Sunyol, and Alexander Guchkov. After her are Oskar Barnack, Oscar Wisting, Gustave Kahn, Svetozar Pribićević, Walther Wever, and Friedrich Sixt von Armin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Bryant ranks 3,881 out of 20,380Before her are Varian Fry (1907), Taylor Hackford (1944), Peter Steele (1962), Jim Beaver (1950), Anna Gunn (1968), and Chaka Khan (1953). After her are Juice Wrld (1998), Vernor Vinge (1944), Michael Chang (1972), Wilson Pickett (1941), Keb' Mo' (1951), and Ron Rivest (1947).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Louise Bryant ranks 37Before her are Edward Snowden (1983), Emmett Till (1941), Coretta Scott King (1927), Edna Parker (1893), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), and Amelia Bloomer (1818). After her are Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Jesse Jackson (1941), Lucretia Mott (1793), Clara Barton (1821), Russell Means (1939), and Abbie Hoffman (1936).