# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kirke-paulding
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:19:34.696Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kirke-paulding"
name: "James Kirke Paulding"
slug: "james-kirke-paulding"
description: "James Kirke Paulding was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy. Paulding's early writings were satirical and violently anti-British, as shown in The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1812). He wrote numerous long poems and serious histories. Among his novels are Konigsmarke, the Long Finne (1823) and The Dutchman's Fireside (1831). He is best known for creating the inimitable Nimrod Wildfire, the \"half horse, half alligator\" in The Lion of the West (1831), and as collaborator with William Irving and Washington Irving in Salmagundi. (1807–08). Paulding was also, by the mid-1830s, an ardent and outspoken defender of slavery who later endorsed southern secession from the United States."
tagline: "American writer (1778–1860)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Kirke_Paulding_SecNavy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1778-08-22"
deathDate: "1860-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump