# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erastus-fairbanks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:25:15.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erastus-fairbanks"
name: "Erastus Fairbanks"
slug: "erastus-fairbanks"
description: "Erastus Fairbanks was an American manufacturer, Whig politician, founder of the Republican Party, and the 21st and 26th governor of Vermont. An industrialist and businessman, he was a co-founder of what became the Fairbanks Scales company."
tagline: "American politician (1792-1864)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erastus_Fairbanks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1792-10-28"
deathDate: "1864-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.91
  momentum:             10.25531914893617
  historical:           5.475342666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Erastus Fairbanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اراستوس فايربانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اراستوس فایربانکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Erastus Fairbanks"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erastus_Fairbanks"
    title: "Erastus Fairbanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "ארסטוס פיירבנקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q883783"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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