# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-spotswood
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:57:49.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-spotswood"
name: "Alexander Spotswood"
slug: "alexander-spotswood"
description: "Major-General Alexander Spotswood was a British army officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1710 to 1722. After an unsatisfactory military career, in 1710 he was appointed as Virginia's governor, a post he held for twelve years. During that period, Spotswood engaged in the exploration of the territories beyond the western border, of which he was the first to see the economic potentials. In 1716 he organised and led an expedition west of the mountains, known as Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, with which he established the Crown's dominion over the territory between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley, thus taking a decisive step for the future British expansion to the West."
tagline: "British soldier, explorer, and colonial administrator (1676–1740)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Spotswood_by_Charles_Bridges_(Colonial_Williamsburg_copy).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1676"
deathDate: "1740-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.41
  momentum:             3.129657228017883
  historical:           8.431798666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Spotswood"
    title: "Alexander Spotswood"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Spotswood"
    title: "Alexander Spotswood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Spotswood"
    title: "Alexander Spotswood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Spotswood"
    title: "Alexander Spotswood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Spotswood"
    title: "Alexander Spotswood"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%B4%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80"
    title: "Спотсвуд, Александр"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump