# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-ruggles-wilson
# Generated: 2026-09-02T18:58:15.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-ruggles-wilson"
name: "Joseph Ruggles Wilson"
slug: "joseph-ruggles-wilson"
description: "Joseph Ruggles Wilson Sr. was a prominent American Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson, Nashville Banner editor Joseph Ruggles Wilson Jr., and Anne E. Wilson Howe. In 1861, as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, he organized the General Assembly of the newly formed Presbyterian Church in the United States, known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, and served as its clerk for 37 years."
tagline: "American theologian and father of Woodrow Wilson"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Ruggles_Wilson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1822-02-28"
deathDate: "1903-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.69
  momentum:             5.668501883512025
  historical:           3.998565333333333
  currentAttention:     30.65134099616858
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Joseph Ruggles Wilson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ruggles_Wilson"
    title: "Joseph Ruggles Wilson"
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    title: "ジョゼフ・ラグルズ・ウィルソン"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ruggles_Wilson"
    title: "Joseph Ruggles Wilson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6286693"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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