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Mary Harris Jones

1837 - 1930

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Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the Labor unionist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing miners and their families against the mine owners. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Harris Jones is the 20th most popular social activist (up from 413th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 161st in 2019) and the most popular Irish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Harris Jones ranks 20 out of 840. Before her are Claus von Stauffenberg, Bertha von Suttner, Rosa Parks, Nicholas Winton, Jean-Paul Marat, and Gustav I of Sweden. After her are Peter Kropotkin, Betty Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, Sophia of Prussia, and Emily Greene Balch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Mary Harris Jones ranks 2. Before her is Empress Elisabeth of Austria. After her are Alois Hitler, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Grover Cleveland, Fredrik Bajer, Wild Bill Hickok, Mily Balakirev, J. P. Morgan, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, and Yohannes IV. Among people deceased in 1930, Mary Harris Jones ranks 6. Before her are Arthur Conan Doyle, D. H. Lawrence, Fridtjof Nansen, Ilya Repin, and Alfred Wegener. After her are Zewditu, Allvar Gullstrand, Fritz Pregl, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Christiaan Eijkman, and William Howard Taft.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Harris Jones ranks 10 out of 549. Before her are George Bernard Shaw (1856), Robert Boyle (1627), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), George Berkeley (1685), and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850). After her are John Scotus Eriugena (810), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Brigid of Kildare (451), Bram Stoker (1847), Edmund Burke (1729), and Michael Gambon (1940).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, Mary Harris Jones ranks 1. After her are William Howard Russell (1820), Wolfe Tone (1763), Eoin O'Duffy (1890), Robert Emmet (1778), and William Smith O'Brien (1803).

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