# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-anthony-volpe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:38.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-anthony-volpe"
name: "John Anthony Volpe"
slug: "john-anthony-volpe"
description: "John Anthony Volpe was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician from Massachusetts. A son of Italian immigrants, he founded and owned a large construction firm. Politically, he was a Republican in increasingly Democratic Massachusetts, serving as its 61st and 63rd governor from 1961 to 1963 and 1965 to 1969, as the United States secretary of transportation from 1969 to 1973, and as the United States ambassador to Italy from 1973 to 1977. As Secretary of Transportation, Volpe was an important figure in the development of the Interstate Highway System at the federal level."
tagline: "American politician (1908-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Volpe.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1908-12-08"
deathDate: "1994-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.51152266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Volpe"
    title: "John Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "جون أنتوني فولبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE"
    title: "جان وولپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Volpe"
    title: "John Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Volpe"
    title: "John A. Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Volpe"
    title: "John Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99"
    title: "ג'ון וולפי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Volpe"
    title: "John A. Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Antonius_Volpe"
    title: "Ioannes Antonius Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BF%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Волпи, Джон Энтони"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Volpe"
    title: "John A. Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Volpe"
    title: "John A. Volpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368192"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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