# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-gorgas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:45:23.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-gorgas"
name: "Josiah Gorgas"
slug: "josiah-gorgas"
description: "Josiah Gorgas was the head of the Confederate States of America Ordance Bureau in the American Civil War, responsible for procuring weapons and ammunition for the Confederate armies; he was a brigadier general at the end of the war. Later, he was president of the University of Alabama."
tagline: "Confederate Army general (1818-1883)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josiah_Gorgas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1818-07-01"
deathDate: "1883-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.951009333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Josiah Gorgas"
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    title: "جوسيا جورجاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gorgas"
    title: "Josiah Gorgas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gorgas"
    title: "Josiah Gorgas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوزایا گورگاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gorgas"
    title: "Josiah Gorgas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gorgas"
    title: "Josiah Gorgas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gorgas"
    title: "Josiah Gorgas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Gorgas"
    title: "Josiah Gorgas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F"
    title: "Горгас, Джозайя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2640611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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