# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-janklow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:33:33.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-janklow"
name: "Bill Janklow"
slug: "bill-janklow"
description: "William John Janklow was an American lawyer and politician and member of the Republican Party. He holds the record for the longest tenure as the governor of South Dakota: sixteen years in office. Janklow had the third-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,851 days."
tagline: "American politician (1939–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Janklow_(South_Dakota_Governor).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: "1939-09-13"
deathDate: "2012-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Bill Janklow"
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    title: "Bill Janklow"
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    title: "Bill Janklow"
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    title: "Bill Janklow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump