# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-bunning
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:28:34.971Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-bunning"
name: "Jim Bunning"
slug: "jim-bunning"
description: "James Paul David Bunning was an American professional baseball pitcher and politician from Kentucky who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1999 and a member of the United States Senate from 1999 to 2011. He is the only Major League Baseball athlete to have been elected to both the United States Senate and the National Baseball Hall of Fame to date."
tagline: "American baseball player and politician (1931–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Bunning_as_ballplayer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1931-10-23"
deathDate: "2017-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.965744400527009
  historical:           18.67677333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://bunning.senate.gov/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump