# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederic-l-paxson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:07:49.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederic-l-paxson"
name: "Frederic L. Paxson"
slug: "frederic-l-paxson"
description: "Frederic Logan Paxson was an American historian. He also served as the President of Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin as a successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947."
tagline: "Pulitzer Prize for History winner (1877–1948)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Frederic_L._Paxson%2C_professor_of_history_%28ca._1910-ca._1920%29%2C_unknown_photographer.jpg/330px-Frederic_L._Paxson%2C_professor_of_history_%28ca._1910-ca._1920%29%2C_unknown_photographer.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1877-02-23"
deathDate: "1948-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.205832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "弗雷德里克·L·帕克森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريديريك ال. پاكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_L._Paxson"
    title: "Frederic L. Paxson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_L._Paxson"
    title: "Frederic L. Paxson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_L._Paxson"
    title: "Frederic L. Paxson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_L._Paxson"
    title: "Frederic L. Paxson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_L._Paxson"
    title: "Frederic L. Paxson"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_L._Paxson"
    title: "Frederic L. Paxson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3752716"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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