# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albion-w-tourgee
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:47.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albion-w-tourgee"
name: "Albion W. Tourgée"
slug: "albion-w-tourgee"
description: "Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. Wounded in the Civil War, he relocated to North Carolina afterward, where he became involved in Reconstruction activities. He served as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1868 and served six years as a judge on the Superior Court. Tourgée was also a pioneer civil rights activist who founded the National Citizens' Rights Association and Bennett College as a normal school for freedmen in North Carolina – it has been a women's college since 1926. Tourgée represented Tabitha Ann Holton in her case before the Supreme Court of North Carolina; she applied for and became the first female lawyer in North Carolina and in the Southern United States."
tagline: "American civil rights activist and novelist (1838–1905)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albion_W._Tourg%C3%A9e.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1838-05-02"
deathDate: "1905-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.32
  momentum:             1.470588235294118
  historical:           4.415696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "البيون دبليو. تورجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_W._Tourg%C3%A9e"
    title: "Albion W. Tourgée"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_Tourg%C3%A9e"
    title: "Albion Tourgée"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_W._Tourg%C3%A9e"
    title: "Albion W. Tourgée"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%DA%88%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%B9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "البیون ڈبلیو ٹورجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2831927"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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