# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-b-steagall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:27:59.491Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-b-steagall"
name: "Henry B. Steagall"
slug: "henry-b-steagall"
description: "Henry Bascom Steagall was a United States representative from Alabama. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency and in 1933, he co-sponsored the Glass–Steagall Act with Carter Glass, an act that introduced banking reforms and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). With Senator Robert F. Wagner, he co-sponsored the Wagner-Steagall National Housing Act of September 1937 which created the United States Housing Authority."
tagline: "American politician (1873-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Steagall_cph.3b21923.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1873-05-19"
deathDate: "1943-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.26
  momentum:             0.3816793893129771
  historical:           4.82448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%89._%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "هينرى بى. ستايجال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Steagall"
    title: "Henry B. Steagall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Steagall"
    title: "Henry B. Steagall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Steagall"
    title: "Henry B. Steagall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Steagall"
    title: "Henry B. Steagall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q763057"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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