# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-daggett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:10:37.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-daggett"
name: "David Daggett"
slug: "david-daggett"
description: "David Daggett was a U.S. senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and a founder of the Yale Law School. He helped block plans for the first college for African Americans in the United States and presided over the conviction of a woman running a boarding school for African Americans in violation of Connecticut's recently passed Black Law. He judged African Americans not to be citizens and supported their colonization to Africa."
tagline: "American judge and politician (1764–1851)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daggett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1764-12-31"
deathDate: "1851-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.209396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Daggett"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديڤيد داجيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Daggett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Daggett"
    title: "David Daggett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید دگت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%93%D7%90%D7%92%D7%98"
    title: "דייוויד דאגט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Daggett"
    title: "David Daggett"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1659660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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