# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-b-weaver
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:07:19.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-b-weaver"
name: "James B. Weaver"
slug: "james-b-weaver"
description: "James Baird Weaver was an American politician in Iowa who was a member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States. He joined the Republicans, opposed slavery, and served as an officer in the Union army during the Civil War, but after 1876 he switched to the Greenbacks, then the Populists, and finally the Democrats. He trained as a lawyer. Late in his career he served as mayor of Colfax, Iowa. He wrote A Call to Action: An Interpretation of the Great Uprising, Its Source and Causes published in 1892 when he was a Populist Party candidate for the U.S. presidency, he later wrote a history of Jasper County, Iowa."
tagline: "American politician (1833–1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1833-06-12"
deathDate: "1912-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.69
  momentum:             0.2255378209576683
  historical:           13.23942533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز بی. ویور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Weaver"
    title: "James B. Weaver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Weaver"
    title: "James B. Weaver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James B. Weaver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James B. Weaver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Weaver"
    title: "James B. Weaver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Weaver"
    title: "James B. Weaver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Weaver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز بی ویور"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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