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Rab Butler

1902 - 1982

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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively deputy prime minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the official title for a brief period in 1962–63. He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the main points of domestic policy until the 1970s; it is sometimes known as "Butskellism" from a fusion of his name with that of his Labour counterpart, Hugh Gaitskell. Born into a family of academics and Indian administrators, Butler had a distinguished academic career before he entered Parliament in 1929. As a junior minister, he helped to pass the Government of India Act 1935. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rab Butler is the 17,207th most popular politician (down from 16,812th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 106th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rab Butler ranks 17,207 out of 19,576. Before him are Alfred Lindley, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Yashwant Sinha, Jennifer Granholm, Sahana Pradhan, and William R. Day. After him are Richard Ferrand, Leonard Wood, Leri Khabelov, Alejandro Mayorkas, Nigel Lawson, and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.

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Among people born in 1902, Rab Butler ranks 322. Before him are Stella Gibbons, Diógenes Domínguez, Rudolf Schoeller, George Murphy, Pietro Genovesi, and Nora Swinburne. After him are Douglas Lowe, Nikolai Ekk, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Walter Dietrich, Esther Ralston, and Luis Lucchetti. Among people deceased in 1982, Rab Butler ranks 295. Before him are Salomon Bochner, Philip Hall, Sheikh Abdullah, Otto von Porat, William Cameron Townsend, and Erik Larsson. After him are Vivien Merchant, Theo Fitzau, Lester Bangs, Hugh Marlowe, Paul Lynde, and Eric Brandon.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Rab Butler ranks 124 out of 217. Before him are Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (1931), Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), Abdul Hamid (1927), Asma Barlas (1950), Fawad Khan (1981), and Khusrau Mirza (1587). After him are Surinder Kaur (1929), Kamini Kaushal (1927), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Khushwant Singh (1915), Balakh Sher Mazari (1928), and Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1902).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Rab Butler ranks 47. Before him are Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893), Maleeha Lodhi (1952), Shaukat Aziz (1949), Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (1950), Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929), and Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (1931). After him are Balakh Sher Mazari (1928), Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (1958), Malik Meraj Khalid (1915), Chris Van Hollen (1959), Kuldip Nayar (1923), and Sartaj Aziz (1929).

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