# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-l-lawrence
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:52:49.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-l-lawrence"
name: "David L. Lawrence"
slug: "david-l-lawrence"
description: "David Leo Lawrence was an American politician who served as the 37th governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963. The first Catholic elected as Pennsylvania's governor, Lawrence is the only mayor of Pittsburgh to have also been elected as Governor of Pennsylvania. He served four terms as mayor, from 1946 through 1959. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him third among the ten best mayors in American history."
tagline: "Governor of Pennsylvania (1889-1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_L._Lawrence.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: "1889-06-18"
deathDate: "1966-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.768145333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Leo Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Lawrence"
    title: "David L. Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David L. Lawrence"
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    title: "데이비드 L. 로런스"
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    title: "David Leo Lawrence"
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    title: "David L. Lawrence"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump