# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-h-percy
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:42:34.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-h-percy"
name: "Charles H. Percy"
slug: "charles-h-percy"
description: "Charles Harting Percy, also known as Chuck Percy, was an American businessman and politician. He was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964, and served as a Republican U.S. senator from Illinois from 1967 until 1985, following a defeat to Paul Simon. He was mentioned as a Republican presidential hopeful from 1968 through 1988. During his Senate career, Percy concentrated on business and foreign relations."
tagline: "American businessman and U.S. senator (1919–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Percy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1919-09-27"
deathDate: "2011-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.80970476468869
  historical:           12.59979466666667
  currentAttention:     83.75527426160338
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump