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Richard Neal

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Richard Edmund Neal (born February 14, 1949) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district since 1989. The district, numbered as the 2nd district from 1989 to 2013, includes Springfield, West Springfield, Pittsfield, Holyoke, Agawam, Chicopee and Westfield, and is much more rural than the rest of the state. A member of the Democratic Party, Neal has been the dean of Massachusetts's delegation to the United States House of Representatives since 2013, and he is also the dean of the New England House delegations. Neal was the president of the Springfield City Council from 1979 to 1983 and the mayor of Springfield from 1983 to 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Neal is the 15,803rd most popular politician (up from 16,010th in 2019), the 8,740th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,997th in 2019) and the 666th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Neal ranks 15,803 out of 19,576. Before him are William Colby, Zhou Xiaochuan, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Wuffa of East Anglia, Vladimir Medinsky, and Antoni Macierewicz. After him are Ruslan Stefanchuk, Martín Javier Mina y Larrea, Edith of Wessex, Osred II of Northumbria, Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, and Castinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Richard Neal ranks 536. Before him are Dorothy Allison, Anthony Denison, Claudia Kolb, Toyokazu Nomura, Heini Hemmi, and Alberto Cardaccio. After him are Dinesh Gunawardena, Shaukat Aziz, Gloria Hendry, Chang Wanquan, Shlomo Artzi, and Scott Turow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Neal ranks 8,742 out of 20,380. Before him are William Colby (1920), Carla Laemmle (1909), Vivica A. Fox (1964), Ramsey Lewis (1935), David Weber (1952), and Jeffrey Williams (1958). After him are Bob Richards (1926), Lana Parrilla (1977), Andy Devine (1905), Richard Kelly (1975), Hugh O'Brian (1925), and Rand Brooks (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Richard Neal ranks 666. Before him are Tom Hayden (1939), Nikki Haley (1972), William Livingston (1723), Dick Durbin (1944), David Dinkins (1927), and William Colby (1920). After him are Richard Henry Lee (1732), Jim McGovern (1959), Lee Friedlander (1934), Bella Abzug (1920), Kari Lake (1969), and Porter Goss (1938).

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