# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ramsay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:34:23.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ramsay"
name: "David Ramsay"
slug: "david-ramsay"
description: "David Ramsay was an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one of the first major historians of the American Revolutionary War. During the Revolution he served in the South Carolina legislature until he was captured by the British. After his release, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782–1783 and again in 1785–1786. Afterwards, he served in the state House and Senate until retiring from public service. In 1803, Ramsay was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He was murdered in 1815 by a mentally ill man whom Ramsay had examined as a physician. He was the first American politician to be assassinated."
tagline: "American physician and historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Ramsay_(1749-1815).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1749-04-02"
deathDate: "1815-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.1052631578947368
  historical:           8.754069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "David Ramsay (historian)"
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    title: "David Ramsay"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump