# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-caswell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:40:49.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-caswell"
name: "Richard Caswell"
slug: "richard-caswell"
description: "Richard Caswell was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first and fifth governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1787. He also served as a senior officer of militia in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. As a delegate to the First Continental Congress, he was a signatory of the 1774 Continental Association."
tagline: "1st and 5th governor of North Carolina 1729-1789"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Caswell_(governor).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1729-08-03"
deathDate: "1789-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.127715602369982
  historical:           10.50032666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "رچرڈ کاسویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Caswell"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caswell"
    title: "Richard Caswell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریچارد کسول"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Caswell"
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    title: "Richard Caswell"
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    title: "Richard Caswell"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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