# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-duncan-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:09:28.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-duncan-jr"
name: "Charles Duncan, Jr."
slug: "charles-duncan-jr"
description: "Charles William Duncan Jr. was an American businessman, administrator, and politician who served as the second United States secretary of energy in the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981. He had previously served as Carter's United States Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Iranian Revolution. Earlier, Duncan had run the family business, Duncan Coffee Company of Houston, Texas, for seven years, until the Coca-Cola Company acquired it in 1964. After seven years on the Coke board, Duncan became the corporation's president."
tagline: "U.S. Secretary of Energy (1926–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Secretary_duncan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-09-09"
deathDate: "2022-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.66
  momentum:             16.11111111111111
  historical:           7.888986666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duncan_Jr."
    title: "Charles Duncan Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز دنكان الابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چارلز دونکان جر."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Duncan"
    title: "Charles W. Duncan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duncan_Jr."
    title: "Charles Duncan Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duncan%2C_Jr."
    title: "Charles Duncan, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%93%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%9F"
    title: "צ'ארלס דאנקן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duncan"
    title: "Charles Duncan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Дункан, Чарльз Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump