# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franklin-benjamin-sanborn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:45:04.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franklin-benjamin-sanborn"
name: "Franklin Benjamin Sanborn"
slug: "franklin-benjamin-sanborn"
description: "Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was an American journalist, teacher, author, reformer, and abolitionist. Sanborn was a social scientist and memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures. He founded the American Social Science Association in 1865 \"to treat wisely the great social problems of the day\". He was a member of the so-called Secret Six, or \"Committee of Six\", which funded or helped obtain funding for John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry; in fact, he introduced Brown to the others. A recent scholar describes him as \"humorless\"."
tagline: "American activist, journalist, editor and author (1831–1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franklin_Benjamin_Sanborn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1831-12-15"
deathDate: "1917-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.38
  momentum:             1.825396825396825
  historical:           4.62682
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "فرانكلين بنجامين سانبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانكلين بنجامين سانبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Benjamin_Sanborn"
    title: "Franklin Benjamin Sanborn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Benjamin_Sanborn"
    title: "Franklin Benjamin Sanborn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "فرینکلن بینجمن سنبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12068191"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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