# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesse-b-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:01:27.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesse-b-thomas"
name: "Jesse B. Thomas"
slug: "jesse-b-thomas"
description: "Jesse Burgess Thomas was an American lawyer, judge and politician who served as a delegate from the Indiana Territory to the 10th Congress and later served as president of the Constitutional Convention which led to Illinois being admitted to the Union. He became one of Illinois' first two senators, and is best known as the author of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 1829 he lived the rest of his life in Ohio."
tagline: "American politician (1777-1853)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JBThomas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1777"
deathDate: "1853-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.86
  momentum:             2.067307692307692
  historical:           8.075702666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jesse B. Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D8%A8_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "جيسي ب توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيسى ب توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جسی بی. توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_B._Thomas"
    title: "Jesse B. Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_B._Thomas"
    title: "Jesse B. Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A8%DB%8C._%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "جسی بی. توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Thomas"
    title: "Jesse Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%A1%D7%99_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1"
    title: "ג'סי תומאס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443081"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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