# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-lawrence-somers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:38:35.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-lawrence-somers"
name: "Andrew Lawrence Somers"
slug: "andrew-lawrence-somers"
description: "Andrew Lawrence Somers was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York, serving from 1925 until his death in 1949. Representing a Brooklyn district, Somers' long tenure spanned the economic upheavals of the interwar period, the transformative New Deal era, World War II, and the early stages of the Cold War. He was known for his expertise in monetary legislation, his efforts to aid European Jews fleeing persecution during World War II and his later advocacy related to the founding of the State of Israel."
tagline: "American politician (1895-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_L._Somers.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1895-03-21"
deathDate: "1949-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.36
  momentum:             2.032520325203252
  historical:           4.805328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "أندرو لورنس سومرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آندریو لاورنس سومرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lawrence_Somers"
    title: "Andrew Lawrence Somers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lawrence_Somers"
    title: "Andrew Lawrence Somers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lawrence_Somers"
    title: "Andrew Lawrence Somers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1103272"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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