# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-h-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:48:53.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-h-ball"
name: "Joseph H. Ball"
slug: "joseph-h-ball"
description: "Joseph Hurst Ball was an American journalist, politician and businessman. Ball served as a Republican senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1949. He was a conservative in domestic policy and a leading foe of labor unions who helped draft the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Ball was best known for his internationalism and his support for a postwar world organization, that became the United Nations. However, after 1945, he was an opponent of the Marshall Plan."
tagline: "American politician (1905-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JosephBall.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1905-11-03"
deathDate: "1993-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.12
  momentum:             15.29673590504451
  historical:           8.745825333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Joseph H. Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Ball"
    title: "Joseph H. Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph H. Ball"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1672420"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump