# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-howard-edmondson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:12:49.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-howard-edmondson"
name: "J. Howard Edmondson"
slug: "j-howard-edmondson"
description: "James Howard Edmondson was an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served as the 16th governor of Oklahoma from 1959 to 1963, and the appointed United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1963 to 1964, losing to Fred R. Harris in a 1964 Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate. When he took office as Governor of Oklahoma at the age of 33, Edmondson was, and still is, the youngest governor in the history of the state."
tagline: "American politician (1925-1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JHEdmondson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1925-09-27"
deathDate: "1971-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.01764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump