# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cynthia-taft-morris
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:34.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cynthia-taft-morris"
name: "Cynthia Taft Morris"
slug: "cynthia-taft-morris"
description: "Cynthia Taft Morris was an American development economist. As a teenager, she and her sister Rosalyn contracted polio, leading to Rosalyn's death at the age of eleven. She was a graduate from Vassar College, London School of Economics and Yale. And she worked on the Marshall Plan, at the World Bank and most notably with Irma Adelman. Cynthia Taft Morris was a granddaughter of former President William Howard Taft."
tagline: "American economist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-04-28"
deathDate: "2013-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             22.40740740740741
  historical:           1.535025333333333
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Taft_Morris"
    title: "Cynthia Taft Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41658510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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