# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dalip-singh-saund
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:38.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dalip-singh-saund"
name: "Dalip Singh Saund"
slug: "dalip-singh-saund"
description: "Dalip Singh Saund was an Indian-born American farmer, lobbyist, judicial officer, academic, and Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1957 to 1963. He was the first Sikh, Punjabi American, Indian American, and first Asian American elected to the United States Congress. As a resident of Westmoreland, California, Saund represented California's 29th congressional district, which at the time consisted of Imperial and Riverside counties."
tagline: "Indian-born American politician (1899-1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dalip_Singh_Saund.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: "1899-09-20"
deathDate: "1973-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.559251559251559
  historical:           7.559618666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Dalip Singh Saund"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump