# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-m-potter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:32.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-m-potter"
name: "David M. Potter"
slug: "david-m-potter"
description: "David Morris Potter was an American historian specializing in the study of the lead up to the American Civil War, especially the political factors involved. His best known book is The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, which was completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and published posthumously in 1976; it won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History."
tagline: "American historian (1910–1971)"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1910-12-06"
deathDate: "1971-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.80851063829788
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David M. Potter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump