# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-abernethy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:34.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-abernethy"
name: "George Abernethy"
slug: "george-abernethy"
description: "George Abernethy was an American politician, pioneer, notable entrepreneur, and first governor of Oregon under the provisional government based in the Willamette Valley, an area later a part of the American state of Oregon. He traveled to Oregon Country as a secular member of the Methodist mission, where he became involved in politics and helped found the first American newspaper west of the Rocky Mountains."
tagline: "American merchant and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Abernethy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1807-10-07"
deathDate: "1877-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.24
  momentum:             4.287769784172661
  historical:           4.410296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%86_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%89"
    title: "چورچ ابيرنيثى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C"
    title: "جورج آبرنتی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Abernethy"
    title: "George Abernethy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Abernethy"
    title: "George Abernethy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Abernethy"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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