# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/burr-w-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:27:18.869Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/burr-w-jones"
name: "Burr W. Jones"
slug: "burr-w-jones"
description: "Burr W. Jones was an American lawyer, jurist, and Democratic politician from Dane County, Wisconsin. He served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district for the 48th Congress (1883–1885). Later in life, he served five years as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, from 1920 through 1925. He was a prominent law professor in Wisconsin, working for more than 30 years at the University of Wisconsin Law School; he also served on the Wisconsin Tax Commission and was president of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and authored a three-volume legal treatise known as Jones on Evidence."
tagline: "American politician (1846–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Burr_W._Jones_in_%22The_badger%22_(1916).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1846-03-09"
deathDate: "1935-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.136573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بر ڈبلیو جونز"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump