# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abe-fortas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:29.292Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abe-fortas"
name: "Abe Fortas"
slug: "abe-fortas"
description: "Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas graduated from Rhodes College and Yale Law School. He later became a law professor at Yale and then an advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Fortas worked at the Department of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to delegations that helped set up the United Nations in 1945."
tagline: "United States Supreme Court Justice (1910-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SCOTUS_Justice_Abe_Fortas.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1910-06-19"
deathDate: "1982-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 208
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump