# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-w-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:44:43.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-w-jones"
name: "George W. Jones"
slug: "george-w-jones"
description: "George Wallace Jones was an American frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party, Jones served over ten years in the Senate, from December 7, 1848, to March 3, 1859. During the American Civil War, he was arrested by Federal authorities and briefly jailed on suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies."
tagline: "American politician, judge and diplomat (1804-1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gwjones.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1804-04-12"
deathDate: "1896-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           9.61098
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump