# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kent
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:14.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kent"
name: "James Kent"
slug: "james-kent"
description: "James Kent was an American jurist, New York legislator, legal scholar, and first Professor of Law at Columbia College. His Commentaries on American Law became the formative American law book in the antebellum era and also helped establish the tradition of law reporting in America. He is sometimes called the \"American Blackstone\"."
tagline: "American lawyer and legal scholar (1763-1847)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Kent_by_Peale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1763-07-31"
deathDate: "1847-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.79
  momentum:             0.584045584045584
  historical:           8.960081333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Кент, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس كينت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس كينت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kent"
    title: "James Kent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kent_(jurist)"
    title: "James Kent (jurist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kent"
    title: "James Kent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kent_(juriste)"
    title: "James Kent (juriste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%B4%D5%BD_%D5%94%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A9"
    title: "Ջեյմս Քենթ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kent_(giurista)"
    title: "James Kent (giurista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4_%EC%BC%84%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "제임스 켄트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725292"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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