# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-pettus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:49.357Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-pettus"
name: "Edmund Pettus"
slug: "edmund-pettus"
description: "Edmund Winston Pettus was an American lawyer, politician and military officer who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1907. He served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war, he was Grand Dragon, or supreme leader, of the Ku Klux Klan, which terrorized and often killed African Americans."
tagline: "American politician (1821-1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edmund_Pettus-photo_portrait.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1821-07-06"
deathDate: "1907-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.691656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edmund Pettus"
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    title: "ادموند پتوس"
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    title: "Edmund Pettus"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus"
    title: "Edmund Pettus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus"
    title: "Edmund Pettus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "ادموند پتوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Winston_Pettus"
    title: "Edmund Winston Pettus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93_%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "אדמונד פטוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus"
    title: "Edmund Pettus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pettus"
    title: "Edmund Pettus"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1286715"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump