# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwards-pierrepont
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:38:06.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwards-pierrepont"
name: "Edwards Pierrepont"
slug: "edwards-pierrepont"
description: "Edwards Pierrepont was an American attorney, reformer, jurist, traveler, New York U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Minister to England, and orator. Having graduated from Yale in 1837, Pierrepont studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. During the American Civil War, Pierrepont was a Democrat, although he supported President Abraham Lincoln. Pierrepont initially supported President Andrew Johnson's conservative Reconstruction efforts having opposed the Radical Republicans. In both 1868 and 1872, Pierrepont supported Ulysses S. Grant for president. For his support, President Grant appointed Pierrepont United States Attorney in 1869. In 1871, Pierrepont gained the reputation as a solid reformer, having joined New York's Committee of Seventy that shut down Boss Tweed's corrupt Tammany Hall. In 1872, Pierrepont modified his views on Reconstruction and stated that African American freedman's rights needed to be protected."
tagline: "American politician, lawyer and United States Attorney General (1817–1892)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edwards_Pierrepont%2C_Brady-Handy_bw_photo_portrait%2C_ca1865-1880.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1817-03-04"
deathDate: "1892-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.830501089324617
  historical:           10.68301066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump