# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-q-cannon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:23:56.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-q-cannon"
name: "George Q. Cannon"
slug: "george-q-cannon"
description: "George Quayle Cannon was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow. He was the church's chief political strategist, and was dubbed \"the Mormon premier\" and \"the Mormon Richelieu\" by the press. He was also a five-time Utah territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress."
tagline: "Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Utah Territory congressional delegate (1827-1901)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1827-01-11"
deathDate: "1901-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.04
  momentum:             6.880733944954128
  historical:           6.168973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Q._Cannon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88._%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جورج کیو. کانون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Q._Cannon"
    title: "George Q. Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Q._Cannon"
    title: "George Q. Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Q._Cannon"
    title: "George Q. Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Q._Cannon"
    title: "George Q. Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Quayle_Cannon"
    title: "George Quayle Cannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q947083"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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