# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/grace-bedell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:19:42.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/grace-bedell"
name: "Grace Bedell"
slug: "grace-bedell"
description: "Grace Greenwood Billings was an American woman, notable as a person whose correspondence, at age 11, encouraged Republican Party nominee and future president Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard. Lincoln later met with Bedell during his inaugural journey in February 1861."
tagline: "Correspondent with Abraham Lincoln (1848–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grace-bedell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1848-11-04"
deathDate: "1936-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.04
  momentum:             17.59994907053731
  historical:           6.978128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Grace Bedell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84"
    title: "جريس بيدل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bedell"
    title: "Grace Bedell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%BD_%D4%B2%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%A5%D5%AC"
    title: "Գրեյս Բեդել"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB"
    title: "グレース・ベデル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Грейс Беделл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bedell"
    title: "Grace Bedell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81"
    title: "Беделл, Грейс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5591005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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