# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-j-oglesby
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:02:56.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-j-oglesby"
name: "Richard J. Oglesby"
slug: "richard-j-oglesby"
description: "Richard James Oglesby was an American military officer and Republican politician from Illinois. He served three non-consecutive terms as Governor of Illinois and as a United States Senator from Illinois. Earlier he was a member of the Illinois Senate, elected in 1860. The town of Oglesby, Illinois, is named in his honor, as is an elementary school situated in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago's south side."
tagline: "Union Army general (1824–1899)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_James_Oglesby_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1824-07-25"
deathDate: "1899-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           10.96850533333333
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump