# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-p-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:59:40.170Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-p-thompson"
name: "David P. Thompson"
slug: "david-p-thompson"
description: "David Preston Thompson was an American businessman and politician in the Pacific Northwest. He was governor of the Idaho Territory from 1875 to 1876. A native of Ohio, he immigrated to the Oregon Territory in 1853. In Oregon, Thompson would become a wealthy business man, and served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly, as both a Republican and a Democrat, both before and after his time in Idaho, with election to both chambers of the legislature."
tagline: "American politician (1834-1901)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Preston_Thompson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1834-11-08"
deathDate: "1901-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.05
  momentum:             0.748898678414097
  historical:           6.342117333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Томпсон, Дэвид Престон"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "داوید پی. تامپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David P. Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Thompson"
    title: "David P. Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Preston_Thompson"
    title: "David Preston Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441815"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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