# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesse-d-bright
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:51.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesse-d-bright"
name: "Jesse D. Bright"
slug: "jesse-d-bright"
description: "Jesse David Bright was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and U.S. Senator from Indiana who served as President pro tempore of the Senate on three occasions. He was the only senator from a Northern state to be expelled for being a Confederate sympathizer, and also the last Senator to be expelled on Confederate rebellion. As a leading Copperhead he opposed the Civil War. He was frequently in competition with Governor Joseph A. Wright, the leader of the state's Republican Party."
tagline: "American politician (1812-1875)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jesse_D_Bright.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1812-12-18"
deathDate: "1875-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.77
  momentum:             0.623608017817372
  historical:           9.617172
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جسی دی. برایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jesse D. Bright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_D._Bright"
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    title: "جسی دی. برایت"
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    title: "Jesse Bright"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump