# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-dixon-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:41:37.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-dixon-porter"
name: "David Dixon Porter"
slug: "david-dixon-porter"
description: "David Dixon Porter was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War."
tagline: "United States Navy admiral (1813-1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Dixon_Porter_-_Mathew_Brady's_National_Photographic_Art_Gallery.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1813-06-08"
deathDate: "1891-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.43
  momentum:             0.6627296587926511
  historical:           14.517
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "David Dixon Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Dixon Porter"
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    title: "David Porter (admirał)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump