# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-r-clapper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:13:23.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-r-clapper"
name: "James R. Clapper"
slug: "james-r-clapper"
description: "James Robert Clapper Jr. is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and former Director of National Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. He served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until 1995. He was the first director of defense intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and simultaneously the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He served as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from September 2001 until June 2006."
tagline: "US government official (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_R._Clapper_official_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1941-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.345800634496577
  historical:           15.17795333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James R. Clapper"
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    title: "James Clapper"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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