# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betsy-ross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:22:48.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betsy-ross"
name: "Betsy Ross"
slug: "betsy-ross"
description: "Elizabeth Griscom Ross, also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with designing and making the first U.S. flag, commonly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Though historians dismissed the story both then and now, Ross family tradition holds that General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and two members of a congressional committee—Robert Morris and George Ross—visited Ross in 1776. Ross convinced Washington to change the shape of the stars in a sketch of a flag he showed her from six-pointed to five-pointed by demonstrating that it was easier and speedier to cut the latter. However, there is no archival evidence or other recorded verbal tradition to substantiate this story of the first U.S. flag. It appears that the story first surfaced in the writings of her grandson in the 1870s, with no mention or documentation in earlier decades. The myth was later incorporated into a large oil painting that appeared at the 1893 Chicago World's fair. The painter, Charles Weisgerber, subsequently promoted the myth, even buying a house he deemed The Betsy Ross House. He solicited money nationwide for the upkeep of the house as a tourist attraction. With the solicitations, he provided a synopsis of the myth with reproductions of his painting."
tagline: "American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Betsy_Ross_1893.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1752-01-01"
deathDate: "1836-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.35879155497628
  historical:           21.63088533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  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