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Zenkō Suzuki

1911 - 2004

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Zenkō Suzuki (鈴木 善幸, Suzuki Zenkō; 11 January 1911 – 19 July 2004) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1980 to 1982. Born in Iwate Prefecture, Suzuki graduated from the Tokyo University of Fisheries in 1935 and was elected to the Diet in 1947 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party, then shifted rightward and joined the Liberal Democratic Party. He briefly served as posts and telecommunications minister and cabinet secretary under Hayato Ikeda, as health and welfare minister under Eisaku Satō, and as agriculture, forests, and fisheries minister under Takeo Fukuda. After the sudden death of prime minister Masayoshi Ōhira in 1980, Suzuki assumed leadership of his faction, and he succeeded him as LDP president and prime minister until 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zenkō Suzuki is the 7,254th most popular politician (up from 7,800th in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 619th in 2019) and the 208th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zenkō Suzuki ranks 7,254 out of 19,576. Before him are Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria, Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Philip I of Macedon, and Miloš Jakeš. After him are Ngô Đình Nhu, Francesco Maria del Monte, Hortense Mancini, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, George, Duke of Bavaria, and Giulio Alberoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Zenkō Suzuki ranks 98. Before him are Qian Xuesen, Mark Bernes, Prince Carl Bernadotte, Viktor Barna, Paul Goodman, and Jehan Alain. After him are Elizabeth Bishop, Maureen O'Sullivan, Teddy Kollek, Maria Reiter, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and Klára Dán von Neumann. Among people deceased in 2004, Zenkō Suzuki ranks 78. Before him are Miki Matsubara, Marika Rökk, Lennart Bernadotte, Serge Reggiani, Thanom Kittikachorn, and Sacha Distel. After him are Jean Rouch, Frances Shand Kydd, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Gordon Cooper, Harold Shipman, and John Charles.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Zenkō Suzuki ranks 602 out of 6,245. Before him are George W. Casey Jr. (1948), Dom Justo Takayama (1552), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Sadaharu Oh (1940), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192). After him are Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Suzaku (923), Takeo Takagi (1892), Yuki Fushimi (1950), Hiroshi Katayama (1940), and Sōsuke Uno (1922).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Zenkō Suzuki ranks 208. Before him are Rei Kawakubo (1942), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Murakami (926), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), and Emperor Junnin (733). After him are Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Suzaku (923), Sōsuke Uno (1922), Fujiwara no Kamatari (614), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), and Kusunoki Masashige (1294).

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