# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-hippolyte-lafontaine
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:28:54.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-hippolyte-lafontaine"
name: "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine"
slug: "louis-hippolyte-lafontaine"
description: "Sir Louis-Hippolyte Ménard dit La Fontaine, 1st Baronet, KCMG was a Canadian politician, jurist and statesman, who served as the first Premier of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada along side Robert Baldwin."
tagline: "Canadian politician (1807-1864)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis-Hippolyte_La_Fontaine_vers_1863.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1807-10-10"
deathDate: "1864-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.12
  momentum:             0.2647352647352647
  historical:           9.87398
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Луї-Іпполіт Лафонтен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "لويس فونتين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لويس فونتين (محامى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine"
    title: "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_La_Fontaine"
    title: "Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine"
    title: "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine"
    title: "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_La_Fontaine"
    title: "Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine"
    title: "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_La_Fontaine"
    title: "Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8-%D0%98%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Лафонтен, Луи-Ипполит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521081"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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