# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-pressler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:02:56.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-pressler"
name: "Larry Pressler"
slug: "larry-pressler"
description: "Larry Lee Pressler is an American lawyer and politician from South Dakota who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979, and United States Senate from 1979 to 1997, as a Republican. He briefly ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1980. He remained active in politics following his failed reelection campaign in 1996 and attempted to regain his former seat in 2014 as an independent, but was unsuccessful. He has since supported Democratic tickets."
tagline: "U.S. politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Larry_Pressler_1977.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.24
  momentum:             2.755417956656347
  historical:           12.088992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/larrypressler"
    handle:    "larrypressler"
sources:
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    title: "Ларрі Пресслер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Pressler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pressler"
    title: "Larry Pressler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pressler"
    title: "Larry Pressler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "لری پرسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Pressler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Pressler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Pressler"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pressler"
    title: "Larry Pressler"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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