# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-e-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:31:05.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-e-thompson"
name: "Melvin E. Thompson"
slug: "melvin-e-thompson"
description: "Melvin Ernest Thompson was an American educator and politician from Millen in the U.S. state of Georgia. Generally known as M.E. Thompson during his political career, he served as the 70th Governor of Georgia from 1947 to 1948 and was elected as the first Lieutenant Governor of Georgia in 1946."
tagline: "American politician (1903–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melvin_Thompson_states_his_claim_to_the_governorship.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1903-05-01"
deathDate: "1980-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.1
  momentum:             0.3973509933774834
  historical:           7.221564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ملفين إي. تومسون"
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    title: "ملوین ای. تومپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Melvin E. Thompson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_E._Thompson"
    title: "Melvin E. Thompson"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_E._Thompson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump