# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-mencken-sr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:21:29.651Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-mencken-sr"
name: "August Mencken, Sr."
slug: "august-mencken-sr"
description: "August Mencken Sr. (1854–1899) was an American cigar magnate who founded Aug. Mencken & Bro. in 1873 with a starting capital of $23 of his own money and $21 of his brother's. A member of Baltimore's German-American community, Mencken was a high-tariff Republican who ran a nonunion factory, viewed the eight-hour day as a foreign innovation destined to destroy America, and drank rye whiskey before every meal, including breakfast."
tagline: "American businessman (1854–1899)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1854-06-16"
deathDate: "1899-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.44
  momentum:             0.970873786407767
  historical:           1.541469333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Mencken_Sr."
    title: "August Mencken Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4820772"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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