# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neill-s-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:23.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neill-s-brown"
name: "Neill S. Brown"
slug: "neill-s-brown"
description: "Neill Smith Brown was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 12th governor of Tennessee from 1847 to 1849, and as the United States Minister to Russia from 1850 to 1853. He also served several terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives, and was Speaker of the House for the 1855–1857 term. A lifelong Whig, Brown campaigned to keep Tennessee in the Union in the years leading up to the Civil War. However, once the war began, he sided with the Confederacy."
tagline: "American politician and diplomat, Governor of Tennessee (1810-1886)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1810-04-18"
deathDate: "1886-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.234042553191489
  historical:           8.941613333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump