# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-fisk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:32:48.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-fisk"
name: "James Fisk"
slug: "james-fisk"
description: "James Fisk Jr. was an American stockbroker and corporate executive who was one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. He achieved much ill-fame for his role in Black Friday in 1869, where he and his partner Jay Gould befriended the unsuspecting President Ulysses S. Grant in an attempt to use the President's good name in a scheme to corner the gold market in New York City. On January 7, 1872, Fisk was assassinated in New York City by his former mistress's new lover, who was trying to blackmail him."
tagline: "American businessman (1835–1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jubilee-jim-fisk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1835-04-01"
deathDate: "1872-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.73
  momentum:             1.589253187613843
  historical:           8.624953333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk"
    title: "James Fisk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83"
    title: "جيمس فيسك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk"
    title: "James Fisk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(Unternehmer)"
    title: "James Fisk (Unternehmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk_(financier)"
    title: "James Fisk (financier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk"
    title: "James Fisk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk"
    title: "James Fisk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%B4%D5%BD_%D5%96%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%AF_%D5%AF%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%BD%D5%A5%D6%80"
    title: "Ջեյմս Ֆիսկ կրտսեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fisk"
    title: "James Fisk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95"
    title: "जेम्स फिस्क"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323705"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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