# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace-capron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:25:44.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horace-capron"
name: "Horace Capron"
slug: "horace-capron"
description: "Horace Capron was an American businessman and agriculturalist, a founder of Laurel, Maryland, a Union officer in the American Civil War, the United States secretary of agriculture under U.S. presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, and an advisor to Japan's Hokkaido Development Commission. His collection of Japanese art and artifacts was sold to the Smithsonian Institution after his death."
tagline: "American businessman, agriculturalist, and Union Army officer (1804–1885)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horace_Capron.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1804-08-31"
deathDate: "1885-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.892874666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Capron"
    title: "Horace Capron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "هوراس كابرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Capron"
    title: "Horace Capron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ホーレス・ケプロン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Capron"
    title: "Horace Capron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Capron"
    title: "Horace Capron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2378155"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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