# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-l-alcorn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:28:55.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-l-alcorn"
name: "James L. Alcorn"
slug: "james-l-alcorn"
description: "James Lusk Alcorn was a governor, and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction era in Mississippi. A Moderate Republican and Whiggish \"scalawag\", he engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican Adelbert Ames, who defeated him in the 1873 gubernatorial race. Alcorn was the first elected Republican governor of Mississippi."
tagline: "American politician (1816–1894)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JLAlcorn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1816-11-04"
deathDate: "1894-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.14
  momentum:             8.15197754245532
  historical:           8.765013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "چيمس ال. الكورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز ال. الکورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James L. Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Alcorn"
    title: "James L. Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز ال. الکورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Alcorn"
    title: "James L. Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'יימס אלקורן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Alcorn"
    title: "James L. Alcorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Alcorn"
    title: "James L. Alcorn"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q886035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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