# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-james-myer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:25:58.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-james-myer"
name: "Albert James Myer"
slug: "albert-james-myer"
description: "Albert James Myer was a surgeon and United States Army general. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wigwag signaling, and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau."
tagline: "Union Army general (1828-1880)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albert_J._Myer_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1828-09-20"
deathDate: "1880-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.679626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "البرت جاى ماير"
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    title: "ألبرت جاي ماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J._Myer"
    title: "Albert J. Myer"
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    title: "Майер, Альберт Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J._Myer"
    title: "Albert J. Myer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アルバート・マイアー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump