# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-manning-jefferies
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:51.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-manning-jefferies"
name: "Richard Manning Jefferies"
slug: "richard-manning-jefferies"
description: "Richard Manning Jefferies, a longtime state legislator and the 101st governor of South Carolina from 1942 to 1943, was born in Union County, South Carolina on February 27, 1889. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1910 and moved to the town of Ridgeland. There, he read law and served as superintendent of the elementary school. Moving to Walterboro after his admission to the bar, he practiced law and was elected probate judge of Colleton County in 1918."
tagline: "State legislator and 101st Governor of South Carolina from 1942 to 1943"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Manning_Jefferies.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1889-02-27"
deathDate: "1964-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.42483660130719
  historical:           5.675162666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Manning Jefferies"
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    title: "ריצ'רד מנינג ג'פריס"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump