# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-f-mcgahn-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:07:07.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-f-mcgahn-ii"
name: "Donald F. McGahn II"
slug: "donald-f-mcgahn-ii"
description: "Donald Francis McGahn II is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel for U.S. president Donald Trump, from the day of Trump's inauguration through October 17, 2018, when McGahn resigned. Previously, McGahn served on the Federal Election Commission for over five years. In November 2019, McGahn received a court order to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives. In August 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 7–2 that the House can sue him to comply."
tagline: "American government official (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_McGahn_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1968-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             10.62320041881162
  historical:           9.644604000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "唐·麦克加恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "دونالد مكغان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "دونالد مكجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn"
    title: "Don McGahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn"
    title: "Don McGahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%DA%A9%DA%AF%D9%86"
    title: "دان مکگن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn"
    title: "Don McGahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn"
    title: "Don McGahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn"
    title: "Don McGahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn"
    title: "Don McGahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn"
    title: "Don McGahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5294332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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