# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ashcroft
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:48:26.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ashcroft"
name: "John Ashcroft"
slug: "john-ashcroft"
description: "John David Ashcroft is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former politician who served as the 79th United States attorney general under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. A Republican from Missouri, Ashcroft represented the state in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2001, and held statewide office as the 29th auditor (1973–1975), 38th attorney general (1976–1985), and 50th governor of Missouri (1985–1993). He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm."
tagline: "79th United States Attorney General"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Ashcroft.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1942-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump