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Walter Q. Gresham

1832 - 1895

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Walter Quintin Gresham (March 17, 1832 – May 28, 1895) was an American attorney, jurist, statesman, and politician who served in the cabinets of presidents Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland. Gresham was the 31st postmaster general of the United States under Arthur from 1883 to 1884 and briefly the 35th U.S. secretary of the treasury from September to October 1884 before resigning to become a federal judge. He was twice a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. president in 1884 and 1888 before leaving the party to support Cleveland in the 1892 election. He joined Cleveland's second cabinet as the 33rd U.S. secretary of state from 1893 until his death in 1895. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Q. Gresham is the 27th most popular judge (up from 31st in 2019), the 7,746th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,096th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Judge.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 27 out of 53. Before him are Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, Nasirul Mulk, Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, and Fathima Beevi. After him are David Souter, Warren E. Burger, Anthony Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh, John Davies, and Anna Chandy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 86. Before him are Eugenio Montero Ríos, William Thomas Blanford, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Juan Montalvo, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, and Heinrich Gerber. After him are Isaac Israel Hayes, Edward Newton, Juris Alunāns, Gyula Szapáry, Mary Everest Boole, and Boston Corbett. Among people deceased in 1895, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 82. Before him are Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, Heinrich von Sybel, Silvestro Lega, Louise Otto-Peters, Bertha Valerius, and Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla. After him are Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Peter Hardeman Burnett, Joseph Thomson, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Lady Charlotte Guest, and Calvert Vaux.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 7,748 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel Lewin (1970), Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798), Gene Pitney (1940), André Holland (1979), John Wesley Shipp (1955), and Billie Dove (1903). After him are William Varley (1880), Robert Charles Wilson (1953), Michael Bishop (1945), Andrew McCarthy (1962), Adoniram Judson (1788), and Katie Eder (1950).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Walter Q. Gresham ranks 12. Before him are Earl Warren (1891), Antonin Scalia (1936), Thurgood Marshall (1908), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), and Stephen Breyer (1938). After him are David Souter (1939), Warren E. Burger (1907), Anthony Kennedy (1936), Brett Kavanaugh (1965), John Paul Stevens (1920), and Elena Kagan (1960).

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