# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-r-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:38:10.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-r-bennett"
name: "James R. Bennett"
slug: "james-r-bennett"
description: "James R. Bennett was an American Republican politician from Alabama. From 1978 to 1983, he served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives and as a member of the Alabama Senate between 1982 and 1992. He went on to serve as Secretary of State of Alabama, from 1993 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2015. He was a Democrat before becoming a Republican in 1997."
tagline: "American politician (1940-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_R._Bennett_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-01-03"
deathDate: "2016-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7964601769911505
  historical:           4.404392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جيمس ر. بينيت"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Bennett"
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    title: "جیمز آر بینیٹ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump