# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:45:13.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horace-porter"
name: "Horace Porter"
slug: "horace-porter"
description: "Horace C. Porter was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant. He also was secretary to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905."
tagline: "United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1837-1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gen._Horace_Porter_(4227901105)_(3x4a).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1837-04-15"
deathDate: "1921-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.71
  momentum:             0.2205882352941176
  historical:           6.555257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace_Porter"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "هوراس بورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Porter"
    title: "Horace Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Porter"
    title: "Horace Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Porter"
    title: "Horace Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Porter"
    title: "Horace Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9C%8D%E5%8B%92%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%B3%A2%E7%89%B9"
    title: "霍勒斯·波特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3140470"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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