# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-laxalt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:19.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-laxalt"
name: "Paul Laxalt"
slug: "paul-laxalt"
description: "Paul Dominique Laxalt was an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971 and as a United States senator representing Nevada from 1974 until 1987. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics. After Reagan was elected president in 1980, many in the national press referred to Laxalt as \"the first friend\". He was the older brother of writer Robert Laxalt and maternal grandfather of Adam Laxalt, who served as the 33rd attorney general of Nevada from 2015 to 2019."
tagline: "22nd Governor of Nevada; United States Senator from Nevada (1974–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Laxalt_2000.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1922-08-02"
deathDate: "2018-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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