# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-josiah-brewer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:14.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-josiah-brewer"
name: "David Josiah Brewer"
slug: "david-josiah-brewer"
description: "David Josiah Brewer was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1890 to 1910. An appointee of President Benjamin Harrison, he supported states' rights, opposed broad interpretations of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce, and voted to strike down economic regulations that he felt infringed on the freedom of contract. He and Justice Rufus W. Peckham were the \"intellectual leaders\" of the Fuller Court, according to the legal academic Owen M. Fiss. Brewer has been viewed negatively by most scholars, though a few have argued that his reputation as a reactionary deserves to be reconsidered."
tagline: "US Supreme Court justice from 1890 to 1910 (1837–1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DavidBrewer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1837-06-20"
deathDate: "1910-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.19
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.358533333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ديفيد جوزيه بروير"
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    title: "داوید جوزیاه بریور"
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    title: "David Josiah Brewer"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Brewer"
    title: "David J. Brewer"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8_(%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%98)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump