# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-turner-morehead
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:39:07.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-turner-morehead"
name: "James Turner Morehead"
slug: "james-turner-morehead"
description: "James Turner Morehead was an American politician who was a United States Senator and the 12th governor of Kentucky. He was the first native-born Kentuckian to hold the governorship of the state. A member of Henry Clay's National Republican Party, Morehead entered politics just as his party was beginning to challenge the Democratic Party's dominance in the state."
tagline: "American politician and lawyer (1797-1854)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JTMorehead.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1797-05-24"
deathDate: "1854-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.097560975609756
  historical:           10.27321866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Turner Morehead (Politiker, 1797)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump