# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/furnifold-mclendel-simmons
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:18:03.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/furnifold-mclendel-simmons"
name: "Furnifold McLendel Simmons"
slug: "furnifold-mclendel-simmons"
description: "Furnifold McLendel Simmons was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887, to March 4, 1889, and U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between March 4, 1901, and March 4, 1931. He served as chairman of the powerful Committee on Finance from March 4, 1913, to March 4, 1919. He was an unsuccessful contender for the 1920 Democratic Party nomination for president. Simmons was a staunch segregationist and white supremacist, and a leading perpetrator of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898."
tagline: "American senator for North Carolina (1854-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Furnifold_McLendel_Simmons.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1854-01-20"
deathDate: "1940-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.199999999999999
  historical:           7.008784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فورنیفولد ام. سیمونز"
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    title: "Furnifold McLendel Simmons"
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    title: "فورنیفولد ام. سیمونز"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump