# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karin-housley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:36:35.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karin-housley"
name: "Karin Housley"
slug: "karin-housley"
description: "Karin Housley is an American politician serving since 2013 as a member of the Minnesota Senate, representing District 33. A Republican, she represents Forest Lake, Stillwater, and the surrounding St. Croix Valley. Housley was the party's nominee in Minnesota's 2018 United States Senate special election, which she lost to Tina Smith."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Minnesota_State_Senator_Karin_Housley.jpg/330px-Minnesota_State_Senator_Karin_Housley.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.07
  momentum:             3.302752293577983
  historical:           3.556085333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KarinHousley"
    handle:    "KarinHousley"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.housleyforsenate.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "کارین هوسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Housley"
    title: "Karin Housley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Housley"
    title: "Karin Housley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karin_Housley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16195595"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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