# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-simpson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:48:25.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-simpson"
name: "Matthew Simpson"
slug: "matthew-simpson"
description: "Matthew Simpson was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852 and based mainly in Philadelphia. During the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, most evangelical denominations in the North, especially the Methodists, were initially strong supporters of radical policies that favored the Freedmen and distrusted the Southern whites. However, by the late 1860s in border state conferences, the MEC North moved well away from their work with the Freedmen's Bureau and often sided with the grievances of Southern white members. Bishop Simpson played a leading role in mobilizing the Northern Methodists for the cause. His biographer calls him the \"High Priest of the Radical Republicans.\""
tagline: "American Methodist bishop and academic (1811–1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matthew_Simpson_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1811-06-21"
deathDate: "1884-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.317073170731706
  historical:           4.405652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ماثيو سيمبسون"
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    title: "ماثيو سيمبسون"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Simpson"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump