# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-delafield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:12:53.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-delafield"
name: "Richard Delafield"
slug: "richard-delafield"
description: "Richard Delafield was a United States Army officer for 52 years. He served as superintendent of the United States Military Academy for a total of 12 years. At the start of the American Civil War, then Colonel Delafield helped equip and send volunteers from New York to the Union Army. He also was in command of defenses around New York Harbor from 1861 to April 1864. On April 22, 1864, he was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army of the United States and Chief of Engineers. On March 8, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Delafield for appointment to the grade of brevet major general in the Regular Army, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on May 4, 1866, reconfirmed due to a technicality on July 14, 1866. He retired from the US Army on August 8, 1866. He later served on two commissions relating to improvements to Boston Harbor and to lighthouses. He also served as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution."
tagline: "Union Army general (1798–1873)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Delafield.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1798-09-01"
deathDate: "1873-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.19
  momentum:             7.327852004110997
  historical:           4.810908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ريتشارد ديلافيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delafield"
    title: "Richard Delafield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delafield"
    title: "Richard Delafield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delafield"
    title: "Richard Delafield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Делафилд, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4157035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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