# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-merkley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:37:27.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-merkley"
name: "Jeff Merkley"
slug: "jeff-merkley"
description: "Jeffrey Alan Merkley is an American politician who is the junior United States senator from Oregon. He was first elected to the Senate in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served from 1999 to 2009 as the representative for the 47th district in the Oregon House of Representatives, which covers central Multnomah County, including portions of eastern Portland; he was the speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives during the last two years of his tenure."
tagline: "American politician (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeff_Merkley%2C_115th_official_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           68.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.28880266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 96
totalFollowers: 30100
platforms:
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    handle:    "SenJeffMerkley"
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    handle:    "senjeffmerkley"
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    handle:    "jeffmerkley"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4240126/"
    handle:    "nm4240126"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://merkley.senate.gov/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRoXttCJhMnLVCxCaa6VnNQ"
    handle:    "@senatorjeffmerkleyyt"
    followers: 30100
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    title: "Мёркли, Джефф"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Jeff Merkley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump