# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-ford-rhodes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:29:35.122Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-ford-rhodes"
name: "James Ford Rhodes"
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description: "James Ford Rhodes, was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. After earning a fortune in the iron, coal, and steel industries by 1885, he retired from business to devote time to historical research. He wrote a seven-volume history of the United States from 1850, initially published from 1893 to 1906 with an eighth volume added in 1920. Another book, A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918), won the second-ever Pulitzer Prize for History."
tagline: "United States historian (1848–1927)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1848-05-01"
deathDate: "1927-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump