# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-barnes-mason
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:35:00.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-barnes-mason"
name: "Richard Barnes Mason"
slug: "richard-barnes-mason"
description: "Richard Barnes Mason was an American military officer who was a career officer in the United States Army and the fifth military governor of California before it became a state. He came from a politically prominent American family and was a descendant of George Mason, a framer of the U.S. Constitution and father of the Bill of Rights."
tagline: "United States general (1797–1850)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RichardBarnesMason.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1797-01-16"
deathDate: "1850-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.92
  momentum:             0.8527131782945736
  historical:           6.548453333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard B. Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد بارنز ماسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnes_Mason"
    title: "Richard Barnes Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnes_Mason"
    title: "Richard Barnes Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnes_Mason"
    title: "Richard Barnes Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Mason"
    title: "Richard B. Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnes_Mason"
    title: "Richard Barnes Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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