# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/beatrice-burns
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:42.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/beatrice-burns"
name: "Beatrice Burns"
slug: "beatrice-burns"
description: "Beatrice Majors Van Vleet Burns was the First Lady of Hawaii for three terms. Born in Oregon and raised in numerous states, she became a registered nurse, joined the United States Army Nurse Corps, and moved to Hawaii. She met Hawaii's future governor John A. Burns during a picnic at Hanauma Bay, when he was a college student. Together they had four children, one of whom was born premature and died when she was struck by poliomyelitis. She never fully recovered from her paralysis, but lived a full life as a wife and mother. While First Lady of Hawaii, she restored the governor's residence of Washington Place."
tagline: "First Lady of Hawaii, married to Governor John A. Burns"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beatrice_Burns.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1906-02-20"
deathDate: "1988-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.204068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Burns"
    title: "Beatrice Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Burns"
    title: "Beatrice Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44397994"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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