# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bassett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:31.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-bassett"
name: "Richard Bassett"
slug: "richard-bassett"
description: "Richard Bassett was an American politician, attorney, slave owner and later abolitionist, veteran of the American Revolution, signer of the United States Constitution, and one of the Founding Fathers of America. He also served as United States Senator from Delaware, chief justice of the Delaware Court of Common Pleas, governor of Delaware and a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Third Circuit."
tagline: "American politician (1745-1815)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_bassett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1745-04-02"
deathDate: "1815-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.36551733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "理查德·巴塞特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد باسيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett"
    title: "Richard Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett_(Delaware_politician)"
    title: "Richard Bassett (Delaware politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "ریچارد باست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett"
    title: "Richard Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ריצ'רד באסט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett"
    title: "Richard Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett"
    title: "Richard Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "リチャード・バセット"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardus_Bassett"
    title: "Ricardus Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett"
    title: "Richard Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett"
    title: "Richard Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett"
    title: "Richard Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bassett_(politician)"
    title: "Richard Bassett (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бассетт, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Річард Бассетт"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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