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Richard Henry Dana Jr.

1815 - 1882

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Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War in the Prize Cases. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Henry Dana Jr. is the 1,252nd most popular writer (up from 6,384th in 2019), the 1,795th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,720th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 1,252 out of 7,302. Before him are Daniil Kharms, Lao She, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Waris Dirie, Léon Bloy, and Annette Kellermann. After him are Valerie Solanas, Josef Čapek, John of Ruusbroec, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Ivan Kotliarevsky, and Émile Gaboriau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 17. Before him are Louis-Jules Trochu, Ildefons Cerdà, Ľudovít Štúr, Julia Margaret Cameron, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, and Lorenz von Stein. After him are Ernest Meissonier, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Andreas Achenbach, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Giuseppina Strepponi, and Constantin von Tischendorf. Among people deceased in 1882, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 24. Before him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, and Ignacy Łukasiewicz. After him are Mary Todd Lincoln, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Ewelina Hańska, Jørgen Moe, Henry Draper, and Mikhail Skobelev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 1,795 out of 20,380. Before him are Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960), Henry J. Heinz (1844), Annie Leibovitz (1949), Chris McCandless (1968), Melvin Laird (1922), and Bob Gunton (1945). After him are Valerie Solanas (1936), Stanley Kramer (1913), Jeffrey DeMunn (1947), Steve Carell (1962), Ethan Hawke (1970), and Bruno Mars (1985).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Richard Henry Dana Jr. ranks 143. Before him are Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Richard Matheson (1926), Rex Stout (1886), Irwin Shaw (1913), Noah Gordon (1926), and Robert Sheckley (1928). After him are Valerie Solanas (1936), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Carson McCullers (1917), James Ellroy (1948), and Joyce Carol Oates (1938).

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