# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denis-benjamin-viger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:37:19.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denis-benjamin-viger"
name: "Denis-Benjamin Viger"
slug: "denis-benjamin-viger"
description: "Denis-Benjamin Viger was a 19th-century politician, lawyer, and newspaper publisher in Lower Canada, who served as joint premier of the Province of Canada for over two years. A leader in the Patriote movement, he was a strong French-Canadian nationalist, but a social conservative in terms of the seigneurial system and the position of the Catholic church in Lower Canada."
tagline: "Lower Canadian politician (1774-1861)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DBviger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1774-08-19"
deathDate: "1861-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.51
  momentum:             5.142857142857141
  historical:           3.939633333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "دينيس بينچامين ڤيجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis-Benjamin_Viger"
    title: "Denis-Benjamin Viger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis-Benjamin_Viger"
    title: "Denis-Benjamin Viger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis-Benjamin_Viger"
    title: "Denis-Benjamin Viger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3022491"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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