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Stand Watie

1806 - 1871

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Brigadier-General Stand Watie (Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏔᎦ, romanized: Degataga, lit. 'Stand firm'; December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871), also known as Standhope Uwatie and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1862 to 1866. The Cherokee Nation allied with the Confederate States during the American Civil War, and he was subsequently the only Native American Confederate general officer. Watie commanded Indian forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, made up mostly of Cherokee, Muskogee, and Seminole. He was the last Confederate States Army general to surrender. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stand Watie is the 209th most popular extremist (down from 200th in 2019), the 6,011th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,243rd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Stand Watie ranks 209 out of 283. Before him are Jane Toppan, Ramadan Shalah, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Robert Ford, Stanley Williams, and Ibn al-Khattab. After him are Ahmed Jabari, Richard Speck, Luis Posada Carriles, Dick Turpin, Mary Ann Cotton, and Ernst Zündel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Stand Watie ranks 44. Before him are Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Émile Souvestre, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Julius Hübner, Jovan Sterija Popović, and Georg Adolf Erman. After him are Fabre Geffrard, Aristeidis Moraitinis, Jane Pierce, Michele Amari, Ivan Kireyevsky, and Matthew Fontaine Maury. Among people deceased in 1871, Stand Watie ranks 53. Before him are Édouard Lartet, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Anna Sundström, Peter von Hess, and François Delsarte. After him are Mariano Melgarejo, Henri Regnault, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Alexander Serov, Victor Motschulsky, and Willibald Alexis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stand Watie ranks 6,011 out of 20,380. Before him are Althea Gibson (1927), Dakota Fanning (1994), Ancel Keys (1904), Britt Robertson (1990), Gustave Gilbert (1911), and Christopher Guest (1948). After him are Henry Knox (1750), Stanley Clarke (1951), Braun Strowman (1983), Vinnie Paul (1964), Armand van Helden (1970), and MC Hammer (1962).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Stand Watie ranks 73. Before him are Mary Surratt (1823), John Wesley Hardin (1853), Charles Starkweather (1938), Jane Toppan (1854), Robert Ford (1862), and Stanley Williams (1953). After him are Richard Speck (1941), Robert Berdella (1949), William Bonin (1947), Mildred Gillars (1900), Frank James (1843), and Christopher Scarver (1969).

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