# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerald-terhorst
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:56:44.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerald-terhorst"
name: "Jerald terHorst"
slug: "jerald-terhorst"
description: "Jerald Franklin terHorst was an American journalist who served as the 14th White House Press Secretary during the first month of Gerald Ford's presidency. His resignation in protest of Ford's unconditional pardon of former president Richard Nixon is still regarded as a rare act of conscience by a high-ranking public official."
tagline: "American journalist (1922–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerald_terHorst.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1922-07-11"
deathDate: "2010-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.91
  momentum:             0.8780487804878049
  historical:           5.500290666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerald_terHorst"
    title: "Jerald terHorst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "چيرالد تيرهورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerald_terHorst"
    title: "Jerald terHorst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerald_terHorst"
    title: "Jerald terHorst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerald_terHorst"
    title: "Jerald terHorst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerald_terHorst"
    title: "Jerald terHorst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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