# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-dickey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:16:16.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-dickey"
name: "Jay Dickey"
slug: "jay-dickey"
description: "Jay Woodson Dickey Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 2001. The amendment known as the Dickey Amendment (1996) blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding injury prevention research that might promote gun control, and the Dickey–Wicker Amendment (1995) prohibits federal funds to be spent on research that involves the destruction of a human embryo."
tagline: "American politician (1939–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jaydickey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1939-12-14"
deathDate: "2017-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.143053333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Dickey"
    title: "Jay Dickey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "جاي ديكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "چاى ديكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A6%DB%8C"
    title: "جای دیکئی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Dickey"
    title: "Jay Dickey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Dickey"
    title: "Jay Dickey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Dickey"
    title: "Jay Dickey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684313"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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