# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-e-mcpherson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:41.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-e-mcpherson"
name: "James E. McPherson"
slug: "james-e-mcpherson"
description: "James Edwin McPherson is an American government official and retired United States Navy rear admiral. He served as the General Counsel of the Army from January 2, 2018, to March 24, 2020. He served as the United States Under Secretary of the Army from March 25, 2020, to January 20, 2021, and in acting capacity from July 23, 2019, to March 24, 2020. He served as Acting United States Secretary of the Navy from April 7, 2020, to May 29, 2020, following the resignation of Thomas Modly."
tagline: "Former United States Secretary of the Navy"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_E._McPherson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.77
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.816272
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جيمس إي. ماكفيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس اى. ماكفيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._McPherson"
    title: "James E. McPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._McPherson"
    title: "James E. McPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%9E%D7%A7'%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F_(%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%99)"
    title: "ג'יימס מק'פרסון (מזכיר הצי)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6133157"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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