# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-wilson-q365181
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:38:12.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-wilson-q365181"
name: "James Wilson"
slug: "james-wilson-q365181"
description: "James Wilson was a Scottish American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist, and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, and was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. In 1787 he was a major participant in drafting the U.S. Constitution, and became one of only six people to sign both documents. A leading legal theorist, he was one of the first four Associate Justices appointed to the Supreme Court by George Washington."
tagline: "Justice on the US Supreme Court (1742-1798)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JusticeJamesWilson.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: "politician"
birthDate: "1742-09-14"
deathDate: "1798-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             20.06034482758621
  historical:           21.31068533333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Wilson (grundlagsfader)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump