# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-f-jonas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:28:04.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-f-jonas"
name: "Benjamin F. Jonas"
slug: "benjamin-f-jonas"
description: "Benjamin Franklin Jonas was an American politician who was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Louisiana and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was the third Jew to serve in the Senate. Jonas was also the last Jewish Senator from the Deep South until Jon Ossoff won his seat in Georgia in 2021."
tagline: "United States Senator from Georgia (1834-1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_F._Jonas_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1834-07-19"
deathDate: "1911-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.528301886792453
  historical:           9.610584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بنجامين إف. جوناس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump