# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-w-barr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:47:42.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-w-barr"
name: "Joseph W. Barr"
slug: "joseph-w-barr"
description: "Joseph Walker Barr was an American businessman and politician from Indiana. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1961. He was also briefly the United States Secretary of the Treasury from December 21, 1968, until January 20, 1969, in President Lyndon B. Johnson's cabinet. He was a member of the Democratic Party."
tagline: "American politician (1918-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_W_Barr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1918-01-17"
deathDate: "1996-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1601164483260553
  historical:           10.49179466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Джозеф Уокер Барр"
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    title: "Joseph W. Barr"
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    title: "Joseph Barr"
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    title: "ג'וזף ווקר בר"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump