# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-forrest-dillon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:53:25.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-forrest-dillon"
name: "John Forrest Dillon"
slug: "john-forrest-dillon"
description: "John Forrest Dillon was an American attorney in Iowa and New York, a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court and a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Eighth Circuit. He authored a highly influential treatise on the power of states over municipal governments."
tagline: "American judge (1831-1914)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Annals_of_Iowa_(1909)_John_Forrest_Dillon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1831-12-25"
deathDate: "1914-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.906574394463668
  historical:           6.173617333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جان فورسٹ ڈلن"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump