# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-edmund-lyng
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:34:35.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-edmund-lyng"
name: "Richard Edmund Lyng"
slug: "richard-edmund-lyng"
description: "Richard Edmund Lyng was a U.S. administrator. A Republican, he served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1986 to 1989."
tagline: "American government official (1918–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_E._Lyng%2C_22nd_Secretary_of_Agriculture%2C_March_1986_-_January_1989._-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1918-06-29"
deathDate: "2003-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.739885333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Edmund Lyng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lyng"
    title: "Richard Lyng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lyng"
    title: "Richard Lyng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Линг, Ричард"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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