# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-william-doniphan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:13.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-william-doniphan"
name: "Alexander William Doniphan"
slug: "alexander-william-doniphan"
description: "Alexander William Doniphan was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the close of the 1838 Mormon War in that state. He also achieved renown as a leader of American troops during the Mexican–American War, as the author of a legal code that still forms the basis of New Mexico's Bill of Rights, and as a successful defense attorney in the Missouri towns of Liberty, Richmond and Independence."
tagline: "American politician and soldier (1808-1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_William_Doniphan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1808-07-09"
deathDate: "1887-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Alexander William Doniphan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump