# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-augustus-jerome-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:17:19.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-augustus-jerome-johnson"
name: "Edgar Augustus Jerome Johnson"
slug: "edgar-augustus-jerome-johnson"
description: "Edgar Augustus Jerome Johnson (1900–1972) was an American economist and a professor of economic history at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He served as consultant to the Indian National Council of Applied Economic Research, consultant to the American International Development (A.I.D) mission to India, deputy director of the U.S. aid mission to Yugoslavia, economic advisor to the Economic Cooperation Administration mission to Greece, director of the Korean ECA program, and Minister of Commerce, Civil Governor, and chief adviser, successively, for the interim government of Korea. During World War II, he was chief, Economics Branch, Allied Land Forces, Norway, and deputy chief, Supply Control, U.S. forces in Germany. He taught at ten American universities and lectured at over a dozen foreign universities."
tagline: "American economist (1900-1972)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Johnson_-_Predecessors_of_Adam_Smith%2C_1965_-_5677654.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Johnson_-_Predecessors_of_Adam_Smith%2C_1965_-_5677654.tif.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900-01-31"
deathDate: "1972-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.534773333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Augustus_Jerome_Johnson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump