# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rice-w-means
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:54:29.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rice-w-means"
name: "Rice W. Means"
slug: "rice-w-means"
description: "Rice William Means was an American soldier, lawyer, and Ku Klux Klan leader. For three years, he was a Republican United States senator from Colorado - serving the remainder of his predecessor's term. He was defeated in the 1928 Republican primary by Charles W. Waterman on a wave of anti-KIan sentiment in the state."
tagline: "American Politician and Ku Klux Klan member (1877-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Senator_Rice_W._Means_of_Colorado%2C_(12-1-24)_LCCN2016838972_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1877-11-16"
deathDate: "1949-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.56
  momentum:             7.674418604651163
  historical:           7.006264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ريس دبليو. ماينس"
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    title: "رایس دبلیو. مینز"
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    title: "Rice W. Means"
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    title: "Rice W. Means"
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    title: "رایس دبلیو. مینز"
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    title: "רייס מינס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_W._Means"
    title: "Rice W. Means"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump