# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-r-burton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:28:47.793Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-r-burton"
name: "Joseph R. Burton"
slug: "joseph-r-burton"
description: "Joseph Ralph Burton was an American lawyer and United States Senator from the state of Kansas. He was the first Senator to be convicted of a crime. He served in the Kansas House of Representatives several times in the 1880s and was elected to the United States Senate in 1901, but he was convicted of accepting bribes in 1905. He appealed twice to the Supreme Court, but the judgment was eventually upheld and he resigned. He lived out his life as a lawyer and newspaperman."
tagline: "First American Senator convicted of a crime (1852–1923)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Ralph_Burton.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: "1852-11-16"
deathDate: "1923-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2870813397129186
  historical:           7.874406666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump