# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-wheeler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:41:05.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-wheeler"
name: "Joseph Wheeler"
slug: "joseph-wheeler"
description: "Joseph \"Fighting Joe\" Wheeler was an American military officer and politician. He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and then a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-American and Philippine–American Wars near the turn of the twentieth century. For much of the Civil War, he was the senior cavalry general in the Army of Tennessee and fought in most of its battles in the Western Theater."
tagline: "Confederate Army general (1836-1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JWheelerCSAGenseated.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1836-09-10"
deathDate: "1906-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.54911733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Уилер, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزيف ويلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزيف ويلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزف ولر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler"
    title: "Joseph Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler"
    title: "Joseph Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler"
    title: "Joseph Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزف ولر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler"
    title: "Joseph Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler"
    title: "Joseph Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler"
    title: "Joseph Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョセフ・ウィーラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler"
    title: "Joseph Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1708240"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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