# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-b-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:04:03.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-b-edwards"
name: "James B. Edwards"
slug: "james-b-edwards"
description: "James Burrows Edwards was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the 1870s. He later served as the U.S. secretary of energy under Ronald Reagan."
tagline: "American politician (1927-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_B._Edwards.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1927-06-24"
deathDate: "2014-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7142857142857143
  historical:           11.16843333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Джеймс Едвардс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James B. Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Edwards"
    title: "James B. Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Edwards"
    title: "James B. Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Edwards"
    title: "James B. Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'יימס אדוארדס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James B. Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James B. Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James B. Edwards"
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    title: "James B. Edwards"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888950"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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