# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-gerson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:27:02.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-gerson"
name: "Michael Gerson"
slug: "michael-gerson"
description: "Michael John Gerson was an American journalist and speechwriter. He was a neoconservative op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group."
tagline: "American political speechwriter and columnist (1964–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1964-05-15"
deathDate: "2022-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.303854666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michael Gerson"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gerson"
    title: "Michael Gerson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6830587"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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