# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-emory-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:49:39.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-emory-davis"
name: "Joseph Emory Davis"
slug: "joseph-emory-davis"
description: "Joseph Emory Davis was an American lawyer who became one of the wealthiest planters in Mississippi in the antebellum era; he owned thousands of acres of land and was among the nine men in Mississippi who owned more than 300 slaves. He was the elder brother of Jefferson Davis and acted as his surrogate father for several years. The younger Davis became a politician, U.S. Senator, and later President of the Confederacy."
tagline: "American lawyer (1784–1870)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Emory_Davis.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1784-12-10"
deathDate: "1870-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           4.07
  momentum:             11.23142250530786
  historical:           1.333333333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Emory_Davis"
    title: "Joseph Emory Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16065635"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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