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Peter Hardeman Burnett

1807 - 1895

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Peter Hardeman Burnett (November 15, 1807 – May 17, 1895) was an American politician, the first elected governor of California from December 20, 1849, to January 9, 1851. Burnett was elected Governor almost one year before California's admission to the Union as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. Raised in a slave-owning family in Missouri, Burnett moved westward after his business career left him heavily in debt. Initially residing in Oregon Country, he became Supreme Judge of the Provisional Government of Oregon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Peter Hardeman Burnett is the 15,751st most popular politician (up from 16,847th in 2024), the 8,623rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,764th in 2019) and the 659th most popular American Politician.

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Among politicians, Peter Hardeman Burnett ranks 15,752 out of 19,576. Before him are Isamu Sonoda, Giovanni Palatucci, Lyudmila Narusova, Andreas Michalakopoulos, Said Mohamed Jaffar, Věra Jourová, and Gayatri Devi. After him are Bernard Collomb, Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson, Hu Chunhua, Marie-George Buffet, and Luis Donaldo Colosio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Peter Hardeman Burnett ranks 52. Before him are Jules Verreaux, Wilford Woodruff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Arnold Henry Guyot, Bernhard Horwitz, and John Greenleaf Whittier. After him are David Rice Atchison, Ira Aldridge, Robert McClure, James Abbott, and Henry Sewell. Among people deceased in 1895, Peter Hardeman Burnett ranks 84. Before him are Silvestro Lega, Louise Otto-Peters, Bertha Valerius, Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Walter Q. Gresham, and Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque. After him are Joseph Thomson, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Lady Charlotte Guest, Calvert Vaux, Henry Seebohm, and Richard Morris Hunt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Hardeman Burnett ranks 8,625 out of 20,380. Before him are Otto Kruger (1885), William Thompson (1908), Ken Olsen (1926), Richard Jefferson (1980), Holly Black (1971), and James Drury (1934). After him are Leonard Warren (1911), Tiffani Thiessen (1974), Art Acord (1890), Max Eastman (1883), Roberta Williams (1953), and Leonard Mlodinow (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Peter Hardeman Burnett ranks 659. Before him are Priscilla Cooper Tyler (1816), Gary Johnson (1953), Lucien Carr (1925), DeWitt Clinton (1769), Chris Sununu (1974), and George Voinovich (1936). After him are Doug Burgum (1956), Tom Hayden (1939), Nikki Haley (1972), William Livingston (1723), Dick Durbin (1944), and David Dinkins (1927).

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