# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-wilkinson-pickens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:22:16.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-wilkinson-pickens"
name: "Francis Wilkinson Pickens"
slug: "francis-wilkinson-pickens"
description: "Francis Wilkinson Pickens was a politician who served as the 69th governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the United States. A cousin of Senator John C. Calhoun, he was born into the Southern planter class. A member of the Democratic Party, Pickens became an ardent supporter of nullification of federal tariffs when he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives before he was elected to the United States House of Representatives."
tagline: "American politician (1805–1869)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Wilkinson_Pickens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1805-04-07"
deathDate: "1869-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.967741935483871
  historical:           8.967605333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Francis Wilkinson Pickens"
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    title: "Francis Wilkinson Pickens"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wilkinson_Pickens"
    title: "Francis Wilkinson Pickens"
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    title: "Francis Wilkinson Pickens"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_W._Pickens"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump