# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/increase-mather
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:41:59.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/increase-mather"
name: "Increase Mather"
slug: "increase-mather"
description: "Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony."
tagline: "Puritan minister, academic, activist (1639-1723)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Increase_Mather.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1639-06-21"
deathDate: "1723-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Increase Mather"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump