# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-hammond
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:17:36.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-hammond"
name: "Jay Hammond"
slug: "jay-hammond"
description: "Jay Sterner Hammond was an American politician of the Republican Party, who served as the fourth governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. Hammond was born in Troy, New York and served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II with the Black Sheep Squadron. In 1946, he moved to Alaska where he worked as a bush pilot. Hammond served as a state representative from 1959 to 1965 and as a state senator from 1967 to 1973. From 1972 until 1974 he was the mayor of the Bristol Bay Borough. Then, in 1974, he was elected governor of Alaska."
tagline: "Governor of Alaska (1922-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jay_Hammond_1975.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1922-07-21"
deathDate: "2005-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.48
  momentum:             9.269440783279986
  historical:           11.17473333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جے ہیمنڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاي سترنر هاموند"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Hammond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Hammond"
    title: "Jay Hammond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Hammond"
    title: "Jay Hammond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Hammond"
    title: "Jay Hammond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'יי המונד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Hammond"
    title: "Jay Hammond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Hammond"
    title: "Jay Hammond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Hammond"
    title: "Jay Hammond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Hammond"
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    title: "Jay Hammond"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q880546"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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