# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-t-ely
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:20:51.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-t-ely"
name: "Richard T. Ely"
slug: "richard-t-ely"
description: "Richard Theodore Ely was an American economist, author, and leader of the Progressive movement who called for more government intervention to reform what it saw as the injustices of capitalism, especially regarding factory conditions, compulsory education, child labor, and labor unions."
tagline: "United States economist and author (1854–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ely-Richard-T.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-04-13"
deathDate: "1943-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump