# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morris-hillquit
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:01:14.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morris-hillquit"
name: "Morris Hillquit"
slug: "morris-hillquit"
description: "Morris Hillquit was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America and prominent labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side. Together with Eugene V. Debs and Congressman Victor L. Berger, Hillquit was one of the leading public faces of American socialism during the first two decades of the 20th century."
tagline: "Riga-born American lawyer, politician and art collector (1869-1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morris_Hillquit_NYWTS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1869-08-01"
deathDate: "1933-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.17
  momentum:             0.9635974304068523
  historical:           7.236864000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "莫里斯·希尔奎特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "موريس هيلكويت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মরিস হিলকুইট"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Morris Hillquit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Hillquit"
    title: "Morris Hillquit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Hillquit"
    title: "Morris Hillquit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Hillquit"
    title: "Morris Hillquit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Хилквит, Моррис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump