# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-w-c-pennington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:32:49.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-w-c-pennington"
name: "James W.C. Pennington"
slug: "james-w-c-pennington"
description: "James William Charles Pennington was an American historian, abolitionist, orator, minister, writer, and social organizer. Pennington is the first Black student known to have attended Yale University. He was ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church, later also serving in Presbyterian churches for congregations in Hartford, Connecticut, and New York. After the Civil War, he served congregations in Natchez, Mississippi, Portland, Maine, and Jacksonville, Florida."
tagline: "African-American activist (1809-1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wcpennington.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1809"
deathDate: "1870-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.76
  momentum:             11.50954450954451
  historical:           5.685494666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._C._Pennington"
    title: "James W. C. Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس ويليام تشارلز بنينغتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._C._Pennington"
    title: "James W. C. Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/938ce91b-d09d-4b12-9623-ae63ff01cbf6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W.C._Pennington"
    title: "James W.C. Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._C._Pennington"
    title: "James W. C. Pennington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161465"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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