# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-tillman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:23:15.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-tillman"
name: "Benjamin Tillman"
slug: "benjamin-tillman"
description: "Benjamin Ryan Tillman was an American Democratic Party politician who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white supremacist who opposed civil rights for black Americans, Tillman led a paramilitary group of Red Shirts during South Carolina's violent 1876 election. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, he defended lynching, and frequently ridiculed black Americans in his speeches, boasting of having helped kill them during that campaign."
tagline: "American politician (1847–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamintillman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1847-08-11"
deathDate: "1918-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.036103396710105
  historical:           14.185976
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump