# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-wise
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:49:28.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-wise"
name: "Bob Wise"
slug: "bob-wise"
description: "Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. is an American politician who served as the 33rd governor of West Virginia from 2001 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Wise also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2001. In 2005 Wise became the president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a nonprofit organization that focuses on reforming the nation's high schools."
tagline: "American politician (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bob_Wise_2002_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1239669421487603
  historical:           12.70903866666667
  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