# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-wade
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:47:09.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-wade"
name: "Benjamin Wade"
slug: "benjamin-wade"
description: "Benjamin Franklin \"Bluff\" Wade was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator for Ohio from 1851 to 1869. He is known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans. Had the 1868 impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson led to a conviction in the Senate, as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Wade would have become acting president for the remaining nine months of Johnson's term."
tagline: "American lawyer and politician (1800–1878)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_F_Wade_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1800-10-27"
deathDate: "1878-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.016393442622951
  historical:           13.43888533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump