# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gill-shorter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:45:10.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gill-shorter"
name: "John Gill Shorter"
slug: "john-gill-shorter"
description: "John Gill Shorter was an American politician, lawyer, and slaveowner who served as the 17th governor of Alabama from 1861 to 1863 during the American Civil War. Before assuming the governorship, Shorter was a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from February 1861 to December 1861."
tagline: "American politician (1818-1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Gill_Shorter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1818-04-23"
deathDate: "1872-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.1
  momentum:             2.830188679245283
  historical:           9.409324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Gill Shorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون جيل شورتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جان جیل شورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gill_Shorter"
    title: "John Gill Shorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gill_Shorter"
    title: "John Gill Shorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gill_Shorter"
    title: "John Gill Shorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gill_Shorter"
    title: "John Gill Shorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%A8"
    title: "ג'ון גיל שורטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Gill_Shorter"
    title: "Ioannes Gill Shorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gill_Shorter"
    title: "John Gill Shorter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Шортер, Джон Гилл"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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