# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-watterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:04:04.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-watterson"
name: "Henry Watterson"
slug: "henry-watterson"
description: "Henry Watterson, the son of a U.S. congressman from Tennessee, became a prominent journalist in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as a Confederate soldier, author and partial term U.S. congressman. A Democrat like his father Harvey Magee Watterson, Henry Watterson for five decades after the American Civil War was a part-owner and editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, which was founded by Walter Newman Haldeman and would be purchased by Robert Worth Bingham in 1919, who would end the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's association with the paper."
tagline: "American journalist and politician (1840-1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Watterson_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1840-02-16"
deathDate: "1921-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.57
  momentum:             1.623529411764706
  historical:           3.951117333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  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_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "هينرى واتيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Watterson"
    title: "Henry Watterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Watterson"
    title: "Henry Watterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "הנרי ווטרסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607389"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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