# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mercer-langston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:52:30.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mercer-langston"
name: "John Mercer Langston"
slug: "john-mercer-langston"
description: "John Mercer Langston was an African American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. During his tenure he was coauthor of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, the blueprint used for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. He was elected a U.S. representative from Virginia and wrote From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol; Or, the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress From the Old Dominion."
tagline: "American politician (1829–1897)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Mercer_Langston_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1829-12-14"
deathDate: "1897-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.723726666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump