# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-gitlow
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:50:15.413Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-gitlow"
name: "Benjamin Gitlow"
slug: "benjamin-gitlow"
description: "Benjamin Gitlow was a prominent American socialist politician of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Communist Party USA. At the end of the 1930s, Gitlow turned to conservatism and wrote two sensational exposés of American communism, books which were very influential during the McCarthy period. Gitlow remained a leading anti-communist up to the time of his death."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Gitlow_1924_Edit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1891"
deathDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.820772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "بنجامين غيتلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%88%D9%88"
    title: "بنجامین جیتلوو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gitlow"
    title: "Benjamin Gitlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gitlow"
    title: "Benjamin Gitlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%93%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%83"
    title: "Бенджамін Гітлоу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4888712"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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