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Samuel J. Tilden

1814 - 1886

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Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election. Tilden was born in 1814 into a wealthy family in New Lebanon, New York. Attracted to politics at a young age, he became a protégé of Martin Van Buren. After studying at Yale University and New York University School of Law, Tilden began a legal career in New York City, becoming a noted corporate lawyer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Samuel J. Tilden is the 15,526th most popular politician (down from 15,376th in 2024), the 8,352nd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,015th in 2019) and the 631st most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 15,525 out of 19,576. Before him are George Tenet, Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Qiao Guanhua, Magne Thomassen, and James M. Cox. After him are Zlatko Lagumdžija, Bülent Ulusu, León Cortés Castro, Giorgio La Pira, Eudemus, José Manuel Marroquín, and Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 71. Before him are Jānis Cimze, Zsigmond Kemény, Dimitrios Valvis, Nicolaas Beets, Oskar Kolberg, and Juan Rafael Mora Porras. After him are Franz von Dingelstedt, George-Étienne Cartier, Lorenzo Snow, Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, John C. Pemberton, and Cajetan von Felder. Among people deceased in 1886, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 54. Before him are Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Richard Maack, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Zinovios Valvis, and Théodore Aubanel. After him are Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, David Rice Atchison, Henry Hobson Richardson, Randolph Caldecott, Rebecca Solomon, and Horatio Seymour.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 8,353 out of 20,380. Before him are Sonny Clark (1931), Rebecca Miller (1962), James M. Cox (1870), Greta Gerwig (1983), and Kathryn Grayson (1922). After him are James Wilkinson (1757), Dave Weckl (1960), Carl Osburn (1884), Robert Harron (1893), Nick Offerman (1970), Bruce M. Metzger (1914), and Fred Hansen (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Samuel J. Tilden ranks 631. Before him are Duncan Hunter (1948), Barbara Boxer (1940), William M. Tweed (1823), Isabella Abbott (1919), George Tenet (1953), and James M. Cox (1870). After him are Thomas Mifflin (1744), Sylvia Mathews Burwell (1965), John Langdon (1741), Lloyd Bentsen (1921), James Brady (1940), and John P. Kennedy (1795).

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