# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bigelow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:52:33.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bigelow"
name: "John Bigelow"
slug: "john-bigelow"
description: "John Bigelow Sr. was an American lawyer, diplomat, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost original manuscript. He played a central role in the founding of the New York Public Library in 1895 and served as the first president of the New York Law School Board of Trustees. During the American Civil War, \"[a]s consul to Paris, then as minister to France, he did more than any other man to ward off dreaded French intervention on behalf of the Confederacy....\""
tagline: "American diplomat, lawyer and politician (1817–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Bigelow_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1817-11-25"
deathDate: "1911-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.31
  momentum:             0.7740585774058577
  historical:           8.085206666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Bigelow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "جون بيغيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون بيجيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bigelow%2C_Sr."
    title: "John Bigelow, Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bigelow"
    title: "John Bigelow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bigelow"
    title: "John Bigelow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bigelow"
    title: "John Bigelow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bigelow"
    title: "John Bigelow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Бигелоу, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960376"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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