# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chester-crocker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:30:08.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chester-crocker"
name: "Chester Crocker"
slug: "chester-crocker"
description: "Chester Arthur Crocker is an American diplomat and scholar who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 9, 1981, to April 21, 1989, in the Reagan administration. Crocker, architect of the U.S. policy of \"constructive engagement\" towards Southern Africa including apartheid-era South Africa, is credited with setting the terms of Namibian independence."
tagline: "American diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chester_Crocker_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-10-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.59
  momentum:             0.9936575052854123
  historical:           6.352053333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Chester Crocker"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Crocker"
    title: "Chester Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Crocker"
    title: "Chester Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Crocker"
    title: "Chester Crocker"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump