# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-latham-sholes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:39:19.417Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-latham-sholes"
name: "Christopher Latham Sholes"
slug: "christopher-latham-sholes"
description: "Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. In his time, Sholes went by the names C. Latham Sholes, Latham Sholes, or C. L. Sholes, but never \"Christopher Sholes\" or \"Christopher L. Sholes\"."
tagline: "American politician (1819–1890)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1819-02-14"
deathDate: "1890-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump