# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:48:41.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-bland"
name: "Richard Bland"
slug: "richard-bland"
description: "Richard Bland, sometimes referred to as Richard Bland II or Richard Bland of Jordan's Point, was an American Founding Father, planter, lawyer and politician from Virginia. A cousin and early mentor of Thomas Jefferson, Bland served 34 years in the Virginia General Assembly, and with John Robinson and this man's cousin Peyton Randolph as one of the most influential and productive burgesses during the last quarter century of the colonial period."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Bland.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1710-05-06"
deathDate: "1776-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.85
  momentum:             4.353629233349957
  historical:           8.294710666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Bland"
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    title: "ریچارد بلند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump